Forfeitures.
Presumption of know-
ledge.
Measures prescribed to be under general
direction of Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
Import of noxious insects and pests.
Import of diseased
persons.
Declaration of infected port.
Medical inspection or examination of arrivals
from infected
places or ports
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13. If any person lands or attempts to land or otherwise brings into the Colony any animal or thing in contravention of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, such animal or thing shall be liable to be forfeited: Provided that this section shall not apply to landing or bringing into a quarantine station any animal or thing under the instructions of a Health Officer.
14. When any occupant of a house in which a case of disease occurs, or any person in charge of a diseased person, is charged with an offence against this Ordinance relative to such disease, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease in such person unless and until he shows to the magistrate before whom he is charged that he had not such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
15. The execution of the measures prescribed by this Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall be carried out under the general direction of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
Part II.
THE PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE.
16. No person shall knowingly import into the Colony any living noxious insect, or any living pest, or any living germ or microbe of disease, or any bacterial culture, without the written consent of a Health Officer.
17. Every master of any vessel or aircraft who brings into the Colony any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease, or who removes any such person from one part of the Colony to the other, except on the order of a Health Officer, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless such master can show to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.
18. Whenever information is received that any quaran- tinable disease has broken out, or exists, or is reasonably sus- pected to exist, at any place or port without the Colony it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare that such place or port is an infected place or infected port.
All declarations made under this section shall be notified in the Gazette.
19.-(1) All persons coming from an infected place or port otherwise than by sea or air may be medically inspected or examined by a Health Officer.
(2) The inspection or examination shall be conducted at such place as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services than by sea. shall approve.
otherwise
Any vessel or aircraft may be
visited by
Health Officer.
(3) In the case of persons arriving by rail the railway au- thorities shall allow sufficient time and make due arrangements for the examination to take place.
20. (1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony may be visited by a Health Officer, who may exercise all or any of the powers vested in him by section 31. and shall deal with the vessel or aircraft in the manner prescribed by or under this Ordinance.