Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Epidemic Control and Emergency Relief Act, 2020.

This Act, consisting of 43 Sections, is enacted to provide for to provide for prevention and control of infectious diseases in the Province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to provide relief to the people in emergency situation.
The Secretary to Government Health Department may declare that the incidence or transmission of an infectious diseases poses a serious and imminent threat to public health in the whole or any part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Subject to the declaration, the Director General, Health Services, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may- ( a) impose duty upon all registered medical practitioners and health facilities in any area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to record, communicate and treat cases of infection or contamination; or (b) confer functions, with the approval Chief Minister, upon one or more officers and servants or a description of officers and servants of the Government, and if so required one or more local governments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in relation to monitoring and control of public health risk; or (c) impose one or more restrictions or requirements on or in relation to persons, things or premises.
The Act further makes provisions for: general restrictions and requirements, prohibition or restriction of events and gatherings, control of potentially infectious persons, duty to undergo screening and assessmen, offences and penalties, etc.