US 8 USCS § 1285

1 Aug 2024

Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted with certain disabilities, including leprosy, is prohibited.

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Virgin Islands 19 V.I.C. § 79

1 Aug 2024

Persons affected by leprosy, and contacts, who fail to submit to necessary examinations will be fined (up to 100 USD) or imprisoned (up to 180 days) or both.

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VI 19 V.I.C. § 77

1 Aug 2024

All known contacts with a person afflicted with Hansen’s disease, including all family connections, by blood or marriage and all persons known to have Hansen’s disease, resident in the Virgin Islands, shall submit to examinations by the Commissioner of Health […]

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Federal Law Number 28 of 2005 (Article 112)

1 Aug 2024

If one of the parties has leprosy, obstruction of genital canals, or insanity before or during the marriage, the spouse could ask for the marriage’s rescission.

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Midwives Registration Ordinance (Cap. 162)

1 Aug 2024

The regulatory authority of midwives having the discretion to prohibit registered midwives suffering from any such scheduled infectious disease from attending women in childbirth.

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Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations (Cap. 164A)

1 Aug 2024

Medical certificate required for a nurse to certify that she is not suffering from any such disease (as part of her application to register)

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Swimming Pools Regulation

1 Aug 2024

Persons affected by communicable diseases, including leprosy, are denied access to private (Cap. 123CA) and public (Cap. 132BR) swimming pools.

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Commercial Bathhouses Regulation (Cap. 132I)

1 Aug 2024

Persons affected by communicable diseases, including leprosy, are denied access to commercial bathhouses.

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Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 599)

1 Aug 2024

Leprosy is expressly defined as a “Scheduled Infectious Disease” in HK’s main public health legislation. This definition includes diseases such as COVID-19, Anthrax, Chickenpox and Cholera.

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GCA 10

1 Aug 2024

Sections 3309-3321; 3328; and 3333 allow for several forms of discrimination on the basis of leprosy. These include requirement to isolate; police enforcement of isolation; destruction of property; closure of schools; specific disposal of corpses; restrictions to enter country.   […]

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Environmental Health Services Regulations, 2003

1 Aug 2024

Compulsory segregation of people affected by leprosy (lists leprosy as a First Schedule disease).

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Meat Industries Act 1996 (NT) s 42; Meat Industries Regulations 1997 (NT) r 64, sch 3

1 Aug 2024

Persons who have reason to believe they are infected with or affected by leprosy must not enter or remain at an establishment from which meat for human consumption is dispatched; a holder of a licence permitting the dispatch of meat […]

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Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

1 Aug 2024

Requirement of persons with leprosy to provide a health undertaking in order to obtain visa; undertaking requirements include reporting to the health clinic to which they are referred, placing themselves under the health clinic’s professional supervision, and undergoing any required […]

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Citizenship

10 Mar 2020

People affected by leprosy are inadmissible

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Non-immigrant or immigrant visa

10 Mar 2020

People affected by leprosy are not eligible for visas

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Cabinet decision no. 28 of 2010

10 Mar 2020

People affected by leprosy are not allowed to enter the country and any person diagnosed with leprosy is deported.

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Immigration Act, B.E. 2522 (1979)

10 Mar 2020

Excludes people diagnosed with leprosy from entering and taking up residency in the Kingdom

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Alien Occupation Act, B.E. 2551 (2008)

10 Mar 2020

Excludes people diagnosed with leprosy from obtaining work permits. If an applicant is diagnosed with leprosy with no severe active/complications, a work permit will be granted along with treatment. If severe active/complications are found, work permit is denied and treatment […]

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Employment Service Act (Article 48)

10 Mar 2020

Based on the Regulations Governing Management of the Health Examination of Employed Aliens, No visa, employment permit or extension of employment permit shall be issued to any individual failing in any one item of the health examination.

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The Leper’s Ordinance, 1901

10 Mar 2020

A cabinet paper has been handed over to the Ministry of Health and is currently being reviewed by the legal department of the Ministry of health prior to submission.

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Railways Act, 1906

10 Mar 2020

Persons suffering from leprosy are not allowed to travel by railway

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Infectious Disease Act, 1977

10 Mar 2020

People affected by leprosy may be detained and isolated in hospitals or other places

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Internal Security Act

10 Mar 2020

If a detained person appears to the officer-in-charge to be a leper, the officer-in-charge may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any Government hospital, there to be kept and treated until cured of his leprosy.

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Prisons Act, 1933

10 Mar 2020

Where a prisoner appears to be suffering from leprosy, the Minister may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services.

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Law no. 76-03

10 Mar 2020

In 1976, Law 65 -128 about leprosy villages replaced law 76-03 which re-designated leprosy villages across Senegal to “villages of social rehabilitation”. However, they are still stigmatised and not well integrated into local communities and villages.

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Republic Act No. 4073, 1964

10 Mar 2020

Segregation and isolation of persons affected by leprosy.

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Immigrant visa

10 Mar 2020

Leprosy is classified as Class A disease (Dangerous or contagious), people affected by leprosy are denied immigration visa – Law under review

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Leprosy Suppression Ordinance, 1923

10 Mar 2020

Forced segregation and isolation of leprosy patients

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Pakistan Fish Inspection and Quality Control Act, 1997

10 Mar 2020

No Person who is suffering from leprosy, tuberculosis, polio or such other contagious diseases, shall handle, carry or process fish or work in a fish processing and packing plant or establishment

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Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939

10 Mar 2020

Women are entitled to divorce their husbands if “he has been insane for a period of two years or is suffering from leprosy or a virulent venereal disease”

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On the Education of the Leper, 1960

10 Mar 2020

“If the search for the Hansen bacillus is positive, the child will be temporarily evicted from the school for a period of one year”

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Nepal’s Civil Code (Mulki Ain) 2074 B.S.

10 Mar 2020

According to Part 3, Family Law, Article 1, Marriage Law, Code 71, 2 (c), it is against the law to marry (by deceit) or assist to marry off (by deceit) people with hearing/speaking disability, blind and leprosy affected. Law under […]

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Immigration Control Act 7 of 1993

10 Mar 2020

People affected by leprosy are not allowed to enter the country.

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City of Rangoon Municipal Act, 1922

10 Mar 2020

Municipal Corporation is allowed to establish segregated ‘asylums’ for persons affected by leprosy to whom ‘pauper lepers’ can be sent.

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Loi 98-036

10 Mar 2020

High Commissioner of the region or the District of Bamako has the right to order the hospitalisation of people diagnosed with leprosy.

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Leper Enactment Act 1926

10 Mar 2020

Compulsory notification and isolation of leprosy patients

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The Leprosy Act, 1949

10 Mar 2020

Compulsory detention of leprosy patients

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Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968

10 Mar 2020

Prohibition on employment of persons suffering from leprosy with the prescription of a punishment for contravention. Active act, under challenge in the PIL at the SC of India

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Andhra Pradesh Excise (Lease of Right to Sell Liquor in Retail) Rules, 1969

10 Mar 2020

Prohibition on persons suffering from leprosy to enter auction houses leading to segregation and disqualification from getting a lease to a person suffering from leprosy especially where the person is directly handling liquor. Active rule, under challenge in the PIL […]

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