it to be efficiently disinfected to the satisfaction of the local authority and in accordance with any regulations in force in the district. For the purposes of this section, “public conveyance” includes any railway coach, tramcar, omnibus, cab, motor car or any vehicle whatsoever, or any boat or other vessel, or any aircraft if the conveyance plies for hire or is used by members of the public. (2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such impriso nment, and may in addition be ordered by the court to pay the owner or driver of the conveyance concerned the amount of any loss or expense necessarily entailed by the disinfection of such vehicle. [Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] 32 Infected dwellings not to be evacuated or let without previous disinfection No person shall cease to occupy or shall let any dwelling or premises or part thereof in which to his knowledge there is or has recently been any person suffering from any infectious disease without having the same, and all articles therein which are liable to retain infection, efficiently disinfected to the satisfaction of the local authority and in accordance with any regulations in force in the district. This section shall apply to any owner or keeper of a hotel or boarding-house who lets any room or part thereof to any person. 33 Removal of bodies of persons who have died of infectious disease (1) In every case of death from an infectious disease it shall be the duty of the occupier of the premises in which the death has occurred immediately to make the best arrangements practicable, pending the removal of the body and the carrying out of thorough disinfection, for preventing the spread of such disease. (1a) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection as inserted by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] (2) It shall be an offence against this Act for the occupier of any premises to keep any dead body in any room in which any person lives, sleeps or works, or in which food is kept or prepared or eaten, or to keep the body of any person who is known to the occupier to have died of an infectious disease for more than twenty-four hours in any place other than a mortuary or other place set apart for the keeping of dead bodies, except with the sanction in writing of the local authority first obtained. (3) Where any person dies of an infectious disease it shall be an offence against this Act to remove the body except for the purpose of immediate burial; and it shall be the duty of any person who removes the body to take it direct to the place of interment for burial. (3a) Any person who is guilty of an offence in terms of subsection (2) or (3) shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection as inserted by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the removal by due authority of any dead body from a hospital to a mortuary. 34 Removal and burial of bodies of persons who have died of infectious disease (1) When— (a) the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease is retained in a room in which any person lives, sleeps or works, or in which food is kept or prepared or eaten; or (b) the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease is retained without the sanction of the local authority for more than twenty-four hours elsewhere than in a mortuary or other place reserved for the keeping of dead bodies; or (c) any dead body is retained in any dwelling or place in circumstances which, in the opinion of the local authority, are likely to endanger health; or (d) any dead body found within the district is unclaimed or no competent person undertakes to bury it; any district administrator, district officer, justice of the peace, medical officer of health or police officer of or above the rank of assistant inspector may, on a certificate signed by a medical practitioner, direct that the body be removed to a mortuary and be buried within a time to be specified in such order, or if the body is that of a person certified to have died of an infectious disease, may order that the body be buried immediately without removal to a mortuary. Unless the friends or relatives of the deceased undertake to, and do, bury the body within the time so specified, the cost of so doing shall be defrayed by the local authority and may be recovered by it by action in any court of competent jurisdiction from any person legally liable to pay the expenses of interment. (2) Any person who obstructs the execution of any order or direction given under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001]