THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
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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.
19.--(1) All persons coming from an infected place or port otherwise than by sea or air may be medically inspected or examined by a Health Officer.
Medical inspection or
examination of arrivals from infect- ed places or ports
(2) The inspection or examination shall be conducted at such place as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services otherwise shall approve.
(3) In the case of persons arriving by rail the railway authorities shall allow sufficient time and make due arrange- ments for the examination to take place.
20.—(1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony may be visited by a Health Officer, who may exercise all or any of the powers vested in him by section 31, and shall deal with the vessel or aircraft in the manner prescribed by or under this Ordinance.
than by sea.
Any vessel or aircraft visited by
may be
Health Officer,
(2) Every master of such vessel or aircraft shall allow Duties of and assist on board without delay a Health Officer as soon as master. he comes alongside.
information
(3) The master or any other person having the control Master to of any vessel or aircraft shall give to a Health Officer, furnish officer in charge of aerodrome or Boarding Officer such to Health information about the vessel or aircraft and the voyage and Officer or the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the officer. officer may require and shall answer truly and fully all the questions put to him by any such officer.
to sea.
Boarding
measures prescribed.
submit to
(4) Any vessel refusing to submit to the measures pre- Vessels scribed by or under this Ordinance shall be at liberty to put refusing to She may however be permitted by a Health Officer to land goods if she is isolated and if the goods are subjected to the measures laid down in sections 47 (iv), 53 (iv), 58 (iv) and 60 (iv). She may also be authorised by him to disembark passengers at their request on condition that they submit to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance. vessel may also take on fuel, foodstuffs and water.
The
to submi
(5) Subject to the provisions of section 61, any aircraft Aircraft which does not wish to submit to the measures prescribed by not wishing or under this Ordinance is at liberty to continue its voyage. to measures It may not however land in any other aerodrome in the Colony prescribed. except for the purpose of taking in supplies. It may be per- mitted by a Health Officer to land goods on condition that it is isolated and that the goods are subjected, if necessary, to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance. It may also take in fuel, replacements, food and water while remaining in isolation.
21. No infected or suspected vessel, and no vessel which has come from an infected port and which has not been granted free pratique in Hong Kong, shall enter the harbour limits before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. without the permission of a Health Officer.
Time
limits for admission to
harbour of
vessels infected, suspected or arriving from an
infected
port,