Epidemic And Disaster
Public-health measures, and safety during a disaster or breakdown of public order (disaster = Disaster Management Act, 2005 s.2(d))
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Summary
Two more lanes open in a crisis.
Public-health measures, and safety during a disaster or breakdown of public order (disaster = Disaster Management Act, 2005 s.2(d))
Full transcript
Two more lanes open in a crisis.
Section 7(g) is medical treatment
during an epidemic or a threat to public health.
Section 7(h) is safety during a disaster,
Pause. What counts as a disaster here?
The Act borrows the definition.
Disaster Management Act, 2005, section 2(d).
And 7(h) also covers a breakdown of public order.
Both licence taking measures. That is the purpose.
Crisis lanes, with borrowed edges.
s.7(g), (h) — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
In force from 13 May 2027