Master to furnish information to Health Officer or Boarding Officer.
Time
limits for
admission to
harbour of infected,
suspected and
contact
622
(2) Every master of such vessel or aircraft shall allow and assist on board without delay a Health Officer as soon as he comes alongside.
(3) The master or any other person having the control of any vessel or aircraft shall give to a Health Officer, officer in charge of aerodrome or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel or aircraft and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the officer may require and shall answer truly and fully all the questions put to him by any such officer.
21. No infected, suspected or contact vessel shall enter the harbour limits before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. without the permission of a Health Officer.
vessels.
Infected,
suspected
and contact
22.—(1) Every infected, every suspected and every con- tact vessel on entering the waters of the Colony shall display vessels to the appropriate quarantine signal as prescribed by section 35, fly quarantine and shall not communicate with the shore until granted prati- signal.
que by the express written order of a Health Officer: Provided nevertheless that any such vessel, which is on a voyage to any other place and which has held no unauthorised communication with the shore, may with the written consent of a Health Officer proceed on such voyage or tranship the passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage.
Vessels required to proceed to quarantine anchorage.
Position at quarantine anchorage determined
by Harbour
Master.
No com- munication
allowed with infected, suspected and contact vessels.
Pilot may board vessel flying quarantine flag.
(2) The aforesaid quarantine signal shall not be lowered. until a Health Officer has given free pratique.
once
23. Every infected, every suspected and every contact vessel shall, unless previously granted pratique, proceed at to the quarantine anchorage and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released by order of a Health Officer. No vessel which is compelled to leave the quarantine anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate except by signals with the shore or with any other vessel, and such vessel shall return to the quarantine anchorage immediately such stress of weather has subsided: Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.
24. The master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the quarantine anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master.
25. Subject to the provisions of section 26, no person other than a Health Officer, or persons in his boat, shall approach within thirty yards of an infected, suspected or contact vessel, or hold any communication except by signals with such vessel or with any person on board thereof, or receive or take any person or thing whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from the vessel or from any person on board thereof without having first received the express written permission of such Health Officer, and without observing such precautions as he may require.
26. The pilot may board a vessel flying the quarantine flag for the purpose of taking it to the quarantine anchorage. In no case shall any member of his crew or other person board the vessel unless authorised by a Health Officer.
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