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L. S. NO. 2 TO GAZETTE NO. 23/2008 7. A health officer may require a traveller to give information specified by the health officer to prevent the occurrence or spread of an infectious disease. (Section 8)

8. It is a defence to a charge under section 5, 7 or 8 to prove that the information was not within the person’s knowledge and could not reasonably have been ascertained by him. (Section 9)

9. This Part contains measures for disease prevention and medical surveillance etc.

10. A health officer is given power to enter laboratories or other places (under a warrant in the case of residential premises) for various purposes designed to prevent the spread of disease. These include powers to ascertain the presence of contacts or infected persons or a source of a specified infectious disease, examine dead bodies, seize articles for examination, take photographs or make audio or video recordings, examine the sanitary condition, place any device for collecting samples (in the case of a point of entry or a cross-boundary conveyance) and to inspect journals or logbooks of a point of entry or a cross-boundary conveyance. (Sections 10, 12 and 13)

11. Points of entry and cross-boundary aircrafts, vessels and public vehicles are required to be maintained in a sanitary condition. (Section 11)

12. It is an offence for a person to import a human corpse, human remains, infectious agents or any human or animal tissues, tissue fluid or body parts or excreta that contains an infectious agent, without a permit in writing from the Director. (Section 14)

13. A health officer may subject a contact or a person infected with a specified infectious disease to medical surveillance or a medical examination or a test, which must not be more intrusive or invasive than is necessary for ascertaining the person’s health condition. (Sections 15 and 16)

14. The Director may designate a hospital or a similar establishment as a designated centre, and if a medical practitioner who practises in a designated centre has administered, or supervised the administration of, vaccination or prophylaxis in the centre to a person, the medical practitioner may issue a certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis certifying this matter. (Sections 18 and 20)