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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE ORDINANCE :(m) the action that a health officer may take in any residential premises or other place referred to in paragraph (l) after entering or breaking into it, including—
 * (i) the inspection and searching of the premises or place;
 * (ii) the inspection of any person or dead body in the premises or place;
 * (iii) the seizure of any article in the premises or place; and
 * (iv) the taking of photographs and the making of any video or sound recording;
 * (n) stopping, removing or detaining any person, conveyance or article;
 * (o) different kinds of disease or contamination control measures, and ordering or applying such measures in respect of any person, place or article;
 * (p) the destruction of any article referred to in paragraph (o) or the prohibition or regulation of its removal or the closing of any place for applying any measures referred to in paragraph (o);
 * (q) the regulation of the sanitariness of any place;
 * (r) in relation to any laboratory in which infectious agents are handled—
 * (i) the control of such handling;
 * (ii) the registration of such laboratory and matters relating to registration; and
 * (iii) empowering the Director to impose any precautionary measure relating to the handling of any scheduled infectious agent;
 * (s) seizing or destroying any infectious agent or any infected or contaminated article and the collection or submission of any sample or article for the purpose of examination or testing or regulating the sanitariness of any place or keeping any place free from contamination;
 * (t) the collection and compulsory provision of any information, compulsory reporting of cases of any disease, death, contamination or leakage of an infectious agent or a toxic agent or any other matter, the inspection of any documents or records and their submission for that purpose;
 * (u) the application of measures in the light of any recommendation made by WHO (other than those made pursuant to article 15 of the International Health Regulations);
 * (v) the carrying out under the direction of a health officer by any person of any act or thing that the health officer is empowered to do under the regulation;