Lepers Act,1898

Act No : 3

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Section : LEPERS FROM ANY PART OF INDIA TO WHICH THIS ACT DOES NOT EXTEND

SECTION 19: LEPERS FROM ANY PART OF INDIA TO WHICH THIS ACT DOES NOT EXTEND

The 25[State Government] may, by notification26in the Official Gazette, direct that any leper or class of lepers, with respect to whom an order for segregation and medical treatment has been made by a Magistrate having jurisdiction within 27[any part of India to which this Act does not extend], may be sent to any leper asylum 28[in the State] specified in such order, and thereupon the provisions of this Act and of any rules made there under shall with such modifications not affecting the substance as may be reasonable and necessary to adapt them to the subject matter, apply to any leper sent to a leper -asylum in pursuance of such notification as though he had been sent by the order of a Magistrate having jurisdiction under this Act.]

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