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13. If any person lands or attempts to land or otherwise Forfeitures. 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.
of know-
14. When any occupant of a house in which a case of Presumption disease occurs, or any person in charge of a diseased person, ledge. 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.
to be under
15. The execution of the measures prescribed by this Measures Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall be prescribed carried out under the general direction of the Director of general Medical and Sanitary Services.
direction of Director of Medical and
Part II.
Sanitary Services.
THE PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE.
insects and
16. No person shall knowingly import into the Colony Import of any living noxious insect, or any living pest, or any living noxious germ or microbe of disease, or any bacterial culture, without pests. the written consent of a Health Officer.
persons.
17. Every master of any vessel or aircraft who brings Import of into the Colony any person suffering from leprosy or any diseased 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- Declaration tinable disease has broken out, or exists, or is reasonably sus- of infected 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.
port.
19. (1) All persons coming from an infected place or Medical port otherwise than by sea or air may be medically inspected inspection or 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 shall approve.
(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.
examination of arrivals from infected
places or otherwise
ports
than by sea..
may be
20. (1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony Any vessel may be visited by a Health Officer, who may exercise or aircraft all or any of the powers vested in him by section 31, and visited by shall deal with the vessel or aircraft in the manner prescribed Health by or under this Ordinance.
Officer.