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THE WEST PAKISTAN EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT, 1958 
 
 
 
 
                                                             CONTENTS 
1. Short title, extent and commencement 
2.  Power to take special measures and prescribed regulations as to dangerous epidemic disease  
3.  Penalty 
4.  Protection to persons acting under act 
5.  Repeal 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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THE WEST PAKISTAN EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT, 1958. 
WEST PAKISTAN ACT NO. XXXVI of 1958. 
[30th April, 1958] 
AN 
АCT 
to consolidate the law relating to the prevention of the spread of dangerous epidemic diseases in 
the Province of West Pakistan. 
WHEREAS it is expe dient to consolidate the law re lating to the prevention  of the spread of 
dangerous epidemic diseases in the Province of West Pakistan; 
It is hereby enacted as follows:__ 
1. Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the West Pakistan Epidemic 
Diseases Act, 1958. 
1[(2) It extends to the whole of the 2[Pakistan].]. 
(3) It shall come into force at once. 
2. Power to take special measures and prescribed regulations as to dangerous epidemic 
disease. (1) When at any time the Provincial Government is satisfied that the Province or any part thereof 
is visited by, or threatened with, an out break of any dangerous epidemic  disease, the Provincial 
Government, if it thinks that the ordinary provisions of the law for the time being in force are insufficient 
for the purpose, may take, or require or empower any person to take, such measures and, by public notice, 
prescribe such temporary regulations to be observed by the public or by any person or class of persons as 
it shall deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of such disease or the spre ad thereof, and may determine 
in what manner and by whom any expenses incurred (including compensation, if any) shall be defrayed. 
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the Provincial 
Government may take mea sures and prescribe regulations for the inspection of persons  travelling by 
railway or otherwise, and the segregation, in hospital, temporary accommodation or otherwise, of persons 
suspected by the inspecting officer of being infected with any such disease. 
(3) The Provincial Government may, by general or special order, empower a Deputy 
Commissioner to exercise in relation to the district all the powers under this section exercisable by the 
 
1Subs. by the West Pakistan Laws (Extension to Karachi) Ordinance, 1964 (Ordinance No. VII of 1964), s. 2, Schedule.  
2Subs. by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P. O. 4 of 1975), see Article 2 and Schedule. 
 
 
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Provincial Government in relation to the Province, other than the power to determine in what manner and 
by whom any expenses incurred (including compensation, if any) shall be defrayed. 
(4) The exercise of powers delegated by the Provincial Government shall be subject to such 
restrictions, limitations and conditions, if a ny, as may be specified by the Provincial Government and to 
the control of, and to revision by the Provincial Government. 
3. Penalty. 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 Pakistan Penal Code. 
4. Protection to persons acting under act. No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against any 
person for anything done or in good faith intended to be done under this Act. 
5. Repeal. The following enactments are hereby repealed:__ 
(a)  the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (III of 1897) ; 
(b)  the Khairpur State Epidemic Diseases Act, 1941 (Khairpur Act of 1941) ; and 
(c)  the Epidemic Diseases (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1944 (Punjab Act III of 1944). 
 
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