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9. Every person having the custody, control or care of any dog which has or is suspected of having rabies, or which is suspected of having been in contact with a case of rabies or suspected rabies, shall comply with all the requirements of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon with regard thereto.
10. If the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is of opinion that any dog is or may be suffering from rabies, or that any dog has been or may reasonably be suspected of having been in contact with any case of rabies or suspected rabies, it may be destroyed by him or by any person by his orders.
11. In Regulations 12 to 20 (both inclusive):-
(a) “Dogs Quarantine Station" means the place for the time being set apart
by the Government for the quarantine of dogs.
(b) "Quarantine permit" means a permit by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon solely for the purpose of enabling a dog which is to be or which has been imported into the Colony to be taken to the Dogs Quarantine- Station.
12. No owner or person having the custody control or care of any dog shall allow such dog to be imported into the Colony, or, if already so imported by water, to be landed in the Colony, or, if already so imported by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, to be removed from the premises of the Railway, until he has received from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon either a permit to import or a quarantine permit.
13. Subject to the provisions of Regulations 14 and 15, no permit to import may may be issued except on the production to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of:
(a) a certificate to the satisfaction of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, dated not more than two months before the dog is imported or brought into the Colony, from a duly qualified veterinary surgeon or a medical officer of health or a British consular authority, that for a period of six months immediately prior to the date of such certificate no case of rabies has been known to occur in any district in which such dog has been: and (b) in case of a dog imported by water a statutory declaration by the master of the vessel by which such dog has been imported, or (alternatively) by the owner if he has travelled on the vessel with the dog, that no case of rabies has occurred on board the vessel during the voyage.
14. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may in his discretion, on being satisfied that no case of rabies has occurred in the place or places where such dog has been during the period of six months immediately proceeding such importation, or that there is no reasonable fear of such dog having been in contact with rabies, dispense with the certi- ficate referred to in paragraph (a) of Regulation 13.
15. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may in his discretion, and on such conditions as he thinks fit, grant in advance a permit to import in respect of any duly licensed sporting dog to allow such dog when taken into Chinese territory to be brought back therefrom.
16. The owners charterers and agents of any vessel which arrives in the waters of the Colony having on board any dog consigned to or intended for any person in the Colony shall report the arrival of such dog forthwith to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, giving the name and address of the owner or consignee of such dog and the description of such dog.
17. The master of any vessel which arrives in the water of the Colony shall not permit any dog to be removed from such vessel until there shall have been produced to him a permit to import or a quarantine permit issued by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in respect of such dog.
18. The owner or person having the custody control or care of any 'dog in respect of which he has received a quarantine permit shall at his own expense immediately after receiving such permit take such dog to the Dogs Quarantine Station to be detained there for such period as the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may prescribe.