Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

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Section 273 Earlier IPC 271

Disobedience to quarantine rule

Chapter 15: Offences affecting public health, safety, convenience, decency and morals

Whoever knowingly disobeys any rule made by the Government for putting any mode of transport into a state of quarantine, or for regulating the intercourse of any such transport in a state of quarantine or for regulating the intercourse between places where an infectious disease prevails and other places, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.

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