Section 160
Power to require names of patients or customers of a medical practitioner or paramedical workers.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Where it is certified to the Chief Executive Officer by the Health Officer or a doctor in the
employment of the Board that there is apprehension of the outbreak or spreading of any infectious or
contagious or communicable disease in the cantonment because of use of contaminated needles, syringes
or any other such equipment by a medical practitioner or by any paramedical worker, the Chief Executive
Officer may, by notice in writing, require the medical practitioner or the paramedical worker, within such
time as may be specified in the notice, to furnish him with a full and complete list of the names and
addresses of all his customers or patients within the cantonment, or to give him such information as will
enable him to trace the persons whom the medical practitioner or the paramedical worker has attended to
or treated in the six weeks preceding the date of issuing the notice.