Power of detention of infected
persons
desirous of landing,
Power of Health
Officer with regard to disposal of infectious corpse.
Trespasser
station may
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to be transferred to any other vessel or to land in the Colony, The period of detention shall in no case be greater than is permitted by this Ordinance or any regulation made there- under.
38. A Health Officer may detain in a quarantine station, until such time as the disease is no longer com- municable to others, any person desirous of landing in the Colony who on arrival is found to be suffering from an infectious disease.
39. In the case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of the Colony having on board the body of any person who has died from an infectious disease, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by a Health Officer; and the master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as such Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.
40. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine on quarantine station without permission may be detained and kept under observation at his own expense for such period not exceeding fourteen days as a Health Officer may deem proper.
be detained.
Costs
Government
may be recovered
from owners or agents.
41. Any costs and expenses charged or incurred by the incurred by Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who under this Ordinance or the regula- tions made thereunder is removed to any hospital or place from any vessel or aircraft for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel or air- craft, or who dies after removal to hospital, or for the burial of any dead body found on board any vessel or aircraft, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or aircraft, or of the merchandise on board any vessel or aircraft, or of any part of the vessel or aircraft or of the merchandise, including the hire of the necessary labour, boat, junks and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.
Police to furnish assistance.
Exemption
of postal matter.
Duty of medical practitioner and master when a case of infectious disease dis- covered on board vessel or aircraft.
42. The Inspector General of Police shall furnish such police assistance as any Health Officer may require for the purpose of enabling him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder and to deal with vessels and aircraft and persons and things on board thereof in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance.
43. Nothing in this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any articles being part of any mails conveyed under the authority of the postal administration of any country, except in the case of such importation as is pro- hibited under section 16.
44. Should the surgeon of, or any medical practitioner visiting, any vessel or aircraft which is within the limits of the Colony find on board any infectious disease, such vessel or aircraft shall at once be considered as an infected vessel or aircraft under this Ordinance. It shall be the duty of such surgeon or medical practitioner to inform the master of the nature of the disease and notify the same in writing to the All further action as regards Health Officer. patient, the members of the crew, the passengers or the vessel or aircraft shall be under the direction of a Health Officer. The master of such vessel or aircraft shall
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