Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 · Chapter XVII: Sanitation and Public Health · Prevention of dangerous diseases
Section 379: Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease
Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force no owner, driver or person in charge of a public conveyance shall be bound to convey or to allow to be conveyed in such conveyance in or in the vicinity of Delhi any person suffering from a dangerous disease or the corpse of any person who has died from such disease unless and until such person pays or tenders a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense which would ordinarily be incurred in disinfecting the conveyance.
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