PART I.
CHAPTER I.
(1)-EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT (III OF 1897).
An Act to provide for the better prevention of the spread of
Dangerous Epidemic Disease.
Short title, extent and
commencement.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the better prevention
of the spread of dangerous epidemic disease; It is hereby
enacted as follows:---
1. (1) This Act may be called the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897;
(2) It extends to the whole of British India (inclusive
of Upper Burma, British Baluchistan, the Santal Parganas
and the Pargana of Spiti); and
(3) It shall come into force at once.
Power to take special
measures and prescribe
regulations as to dangerous
epidemic disease.
2. (1) When at any time the Governor-General in Council
is satisfied that India or any part there-
of is visited by, or threatened with, an
outbreak of any dangerous epidemic
disease, the Governor-General in Council,
if he thinks that the ordinary provisions of the law for the
time being in force are insufficient for the purpose, may take
or require or empower any person to take such measures and,
by public notice, prescribe such temporary Regulations to
be observed by the public or by any person or class of per-
sons as he shall deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of
such disease or the spread thereof, and may determine in
what manner and by whom any expenses incurred (including
compensation if any) shall be defrayed.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing provisions, the Governor-General in Council
may take measures and prescribe Regulations for-
(a) the inspection of any ship or vessel leaving, or
arriving at, any port in British India and such