Penalty on sending child to school so as to spread infection

(1) Every parent or person having care or charge of a child who is or has been suffering from an infectious disease, or who resides in a house where such disease exists or has existed within a period of three months, who shall knowingly or negligently permit such child to attend school without procuring and producing to the teacher or other person in charge of such school a certificate from a medical officer of health or registered medical practitioner that such child has become free from disease and infection, and that the house and everything therein exposed to infection has been disinfected to the satisfaction of such medical officer or practitioner is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, Provided that if a person is not required to send notice in the first instance but only in default of some other person, he shall not be liable to any penalty, if he satisfies the court that he had reasonable cause to suppose that the notice had been duly sent. 51 (2) Every teacher or person in charge of any school, who knowingly permits any child to attend such school in contravention of this section is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. (3) Whenever the Director of Health Services is satisfied that a dangerous infectious disease exists in any town or place, and that the closure of any school is necessary for checking the spread of such disease, the Director of Health Services may order the manager or person in charge of any such school to close the school, and such manager or person in charge shall forthwith carry out that order, till otherwise directed by the (4) The principal of a school in which any scholar is suffering from an infectious disease shall, if required by a medical officer of health, furnish to him within a reasonable time fixed by him a complete list of the names and addresses of the scholars, in or attending the school, or any specified department of the school. (5) If the principal of a school fails to comply with subsection (4) of this section, he is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. (6) In subsections (4) and (5) of this section, “the principal” means the person in charge of a school, and includes, where the school is divided into departments and where no one person is in charge of the whole school, the head of any department.