Section 167
Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease.
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.
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 a cantonment any person suffering from an infectious or contagious
disease or the corpse of any person who has died from such disease unless and until such person pays or
tenders a sum fixed by the Chief Executive Officer from time to time, to cover any loss and expense
which would ordinarily be incurred in disinfecting the conveyance.