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HEALTH ACT 1911 - SECT 225

225 .         Employment of infected persons prohibited

        (1)         A person who —

            (a)         is suffering from any infectious or contagious disease; and

            (b)         engages or is employed in the manufacture, manipulation, preparation, handling, storage or sale of drugs,

                commits an offence.

        (2)         A medical officer may examine any person engaged or employed within the meaning of subsection (1) who is suspected of suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, and every such person who refuses to submit to such an examination on being required by a medical officer so do commits an offence.

        [Section 225 inserted by No. 26 of 1985 s. 7; amended by No. 80 of 1987 s. 73.]



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