(k) epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis (or cerebro-spinal fever or spotted fever); (l) acute poliomyelitis (or infantile paralysis); (m) leprosy; (n) anthrax; (o) glanders; (p) rabies; (q) trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness); and all forms of tuberculosis, and such other infectious or communicable diseases including sexually tran smitted diseases as the Minister may declare, by statutory instrument, to be infectious diseases either throughout Zimbabwe or in any part of Zimbabwe. [Section as amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997] 18 Notification of infectious disease (1) Whenever any child attending any school, orphanage or other like institution, or any person residing in any hotel, boarding-house or other like institution, is known to be suffering from any infectious disease, whether such infectious disease is specified in this Part or not, the principal or person in charge of such school, orphanage or other like institution, or the manager or proprietor or person in charge of such hotel, boarding-house or other like institution shall forthwith send notice thereof to the local authority of the district, and shall furnish to the medical officer of health, on his request, a list of scholars or residents thereat, together with their addresses. (2) Any person who fails to give any notice required by 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 amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] (3) In any prosecution under this section the onus of showing that he was unaware that the patient was suffering from a notifiable infectious disease shall be on the person charged. 19 Notification by medical practitioners (1) If a patient suffering, to the knowledge of the medical practitioner attending him, from an infectious disease dies therefrom, such medical practitioner shall immediately furnish to the local authority of the district a written certificate containing the appropriate particulars mentioned in subsection (1). (2) Any medical practitioner who fails to furnish a certificate of notification as required by this section 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, and in any prosecution under this section the onus shall be on the medical practitioner charged to show that he was unaware that the patient was suffering from or the deceased had died of an infectious disease. [Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] 20 Local authorities to transmit return of notifications Every local authority shall, at the end of each week and on the form prescribed, transmit to the Chief Health Officer particulars of all cases of infectious diseases and of all deaths from infectious diseases notified to it during the week, and all information which it may possess as to the outbreak or prevalence of any infectious, communicable or preventable disease in its district. 21 Regulations for the notification of infectious The Minister may, in respect of the notification of diseases, make regulations as to— (a) the duties of owners or occupiers of land, owners or managers of mines, employers of labour and all chiefs or headmen or others in regard to reporting the occurrence of such diseases, whether infectious or otherwise, as may be prescribed in the regulations; (b) the duties of medical practitioners and other persons in regard to the reporting or notification of such disease, whether infectious or otherwise, as may be prescribed in the regulations; (c) the circumstances in which notification of particular infectious diseases shall not be required; (d) the duties of a local authority in respect of the keeping of registers and records of such notifications; (e) the duties of registrars of deaths in respect of furnishing the local authority with notification of returns of deaths notified with such registrars; (f) the fees payable to medical practitioners in respect of such notifications, and the circumstances in which fees shall or shall not be payable; the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by medical practitioners when making such notifications; (g) the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by local authorities and other persons when transmitting returns and reports to the Chief Health Officer; and, generally, for the better carrying out and attaining the objects and purposes of this Part. Any person who contravenes any of such regulations 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 amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001]