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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
Arrest.
Forfeitures.
Presumption of know- ledge.
Measures
prescribed
to be under
12.--(1) When a person is seen or found committing or. is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made there- under, any Health Officer or police officer may, without warrant, stop and detain him, and if his name and address are. not known may arrest him.
(2) If any person obstructs or impedes a Health Officer or other officer appointed under this Ordinance or any police officer in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance on any regulation made thereunder, or assists in any such obstruction or impeding, he may be arrested by such Health Officer or other officer or police officer without warrant.
(3) Nothing in this section shall take away or abridge any power or authority that a police officer would have had if this section had not been enacted.
13. If any person lands or attempts to land or otherwise 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.
14. When any occupant of a house in which a case of disease occurs, or any person in charge of a diseased person, is charged with an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, relative to such discase, he shal! 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.
15. The execution of the measures prescribed by this Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall be carried out under the general direction of the Director of direction of Medical and Sanitary Services.
general
Director of
Medical and
Sanitary Services.
Import of noxious insects and pests.
Import of diseased
persons,
Declaration
Part II.
THE PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE.
16. No person shall knowingly import into the Colony any living noxious insect, or any living pest, or any living germ or microbe of disease, or any bacterial culture, without the written consent of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
17. Every master of any vessel or aircraft who brings into the Colony any person suffering from leprosy or any 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 plague, of infected cholera, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox has broken out, or exists, or is reasonably suspected to exist, at any place or
port.