Power of Health
Officer as
on board vessels under ob- servation
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37. Whenever a Health Officer shall so require, all passengers on board any vessel under observation or so many to passengers as he may direct shall be taken to a quarantine station and there kept and attended to for such a time as he may deem proper before allowing them to return on board the vessel or 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.
Power of
detention of infected
persons
desirous of landing.
Power of
Health
Officer with regard to disposal of infectious
corpse.
Trespasser
on quaran-
tine station may be
detained.
Costs
Government
may be recovered
from owners or agents.
38. A Health Officer may detain in a quarantine station, until such time as the disease is no longer communicable 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 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.
41. Any reasonable costs and expenses charged or incurred by incurred by the Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who under this Ordin- ance or the regulations 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 aircraft, 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, boats, junks and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to the Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.
Police to furnish assistance.
Exemption
of postal matter.
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.
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