33.1(1)Subject to subsection (2), the chief medical officer of health may, by written order, require an owner or occupier of a premises or a person responsible for a recreational, sporting or cultural activity or event to take or to refrain from taking any action that is specified in the order in respect of a notifiable disease.

33.1(2)The chief medical officer of health may make an order if the chief medical officer of health has reasonable grounds to believe

33.1(3)The chief medical officer of health shall specify in the order the date on which the order takes effect and the period during which it is in effect, which shall not exceed 14 days.

33.1(4)An order may provide for any action that the chief medical officer of health considers necessary to prevent, decrease or eliminate the risk to health presented by the notifiable disease.

33.1(5)An order is not effective unless the reasons for the order are set out in the order.

33.1(6)If the delay necessary to put an order in writing will or is likely to increase substantially the risk to the health of any person presented by the notifiable disease, the chief medical officer of health may make the order orally and subsection (5) does not apply.

33.1(7)When an order is made orally, the contents of the order and the reasons for the order shall, as soon as possible, be put into writing and served on each person to whom the order was directed, but a failure to comply with this subsection does not invalidate the order.

33.1(8)A person to whom an order is directed shall comply with the order.