Notifiable Diseases Act 1981

The area described in Schedule 2 is deemed to be an area declared by the Administrator under section 17 to be an isolation area.

A person who was, immediately prior to the commencement of this

Act, a leprosy patient within the meaning of the Leprosy Act 1954 as then in force is deemed to be an infected person upon whom a notice under section 11(1), directing him:

to remain at the isolation area referred to in subsection (1);

and

to submit himself to the care and control of the Chief Health

Officer, until otherwise directed by a medical officer,

has been duly served.