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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.
detention of
38. A Health Officer may detain in a quarantine Power of station, until such time as the disease is no longer com- infected municable to others, any person desirous of landing in the persons Colony who on arrival is found to be suffering from an landing. infectious disease.
desirous of
Health
39. In the case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of Power of the Colony having on board the body of any person who has officer with died from an infectious disease, the body shall be disposed of regard to in such manner as may be ordered by a Health Officer; infectious
disposal of and the master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as corpse. such Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.
40. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine Trespasser station without permission may be detained and kept under station may
on quarantine observation at his own expense for such period not exceeding be detained. fourteen days as a Health Officer may deem proper.
incurred by Government
recovered
41. Any costs and expenses charged or incurred by the Costs Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the may be ship's articles or not, who under this Ordinance or the regula- from owners tions made thereunder is removed to any hospital or place from or agents. 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 the Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.
furnish
42. The Inspector General of Police shall furnish such Police to police assistance as any Health Officer may require for the assistance. 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.
matter.
43. Nothing in this Ordinance or the regulations made Exemption thereunder shall render liable to detention,
of postal 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.
medical
when a case
covered on
44. Should the surgeon of, or any medical practitioner Duty of visiting, any vessel or aircraft which is within the limits of practitioner the Colony find on board any infectious disease, such vessel and master or aircraft shall at once be considered as an infected vessel of infectious or aircraft under this Ordinance. It shall be the duty disease dis- of such surgeon or medical practitioner to inform the master board vessel of the nature of the disease and notify the same in writing to or aircraft. а Health Officer. All further action as regards the 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