A High-level Group of Ministers decided that all States/UTs should be advised by the Health Ministry to invoke provisions of Section 2 of Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 so that all advisories being issued from time to time by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare/State/UTs are enforceable.
EPIDEMIC DISEASE ACT, 1897
A High-level Group of Ministers decided that all States/UTs should be advised by the Health Ministry to invoke provisions of Section 2 of Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 so that all advisories being issued from time to time by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare/State/UTs are enforceable.
- The Epidemic Act is meant “to provide for the better prevention of the spread of dangerous epidemic diseases”.
- Section 2 of the act empower the state government to take special measures and prescribe regulations as to dangerous epidemic disease.
- Section 2A of the Act empowers the central government to take steps to prevent the spread of an epidemic.
- According to section 3 of the act, Any person disobeying any regulation or order made under this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
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