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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.
Cleansing and dis- infection
as a check
(5) The Governor shall decide in each case whether the compensation, if any, is to be paid to the owner or occupier, and payment in accordance with the decision of the Governor shall bar any further claim to compensation by owner or occupier.
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the rights of the owners or occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any compensation awarded.
101. If a Health Officer is of opinion that the cleansing or disinfection of a building or part of a building or of any of buildings article therein likely to retain infection would tend to prevent or check the spread of any infectious disease, leprosy or tuberculosis, he may by notice in writing require the owner or occupier to cleanse or disinfect the same in the manner therein specified.
to the spread of disease.
Power of Health
Officer to
owner
102. When in the opinion of a Health Officer the or occupier is from poverty or otherwise unable cleanse and effectually to carry out the said requirements, the Health Officer may cleanse or disinfect or cause to be cleansed or disinfected the building or buildings or part of the same and any articles therein at the expense of the Government.
disinfect
buildings
and their contents.
Disinfection
with or without
103.-(1) After the removal of any person suffering of premises from an infectious disease from any house a Health Officer shall cause the room which such person occupied, and any other portion of the house which such Health Officer deems to be infected, to be thoroughly disinfected, and the house may be closed for such period as he may direct.
closure
after
removal
of cases.
Action with regard to infectious
corpses.
Recovery
of cost of disinfection
and pay- ment of compensation for damage.
(2) No person except a Health Officer or persons authorised by him shall enter such room or house during such period.
104. In the event of the death of any person from infectious disease a Health Officer shall take the necessary action to prevent the spread of infection from the corpse. The clothing, bedding and all personal effects of the deceased, which are liable, in the opinion of the Health Officer, to carry infection, shall be disinfected or, if the Health Officer so orders, be destroyed by fire, and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation as of right for the destruction of any such article.
105. Notwithstanding anything contained in the fore- going sections, the Council shall have power by officers of the Sanitary Department to enter and to cleanse and to disinfect any premises where any person suffering from plague, cholera or smallpox or any other contagious or infectious disease, is or has been, or is reasonably suspected to have been, recently located, and the Council may recover the cost of such disinfection and cleansing from the house holder; but compensation may be given to such house holder for any bedding, clothing or other articles which have been destroyed during such cleansing or disinfection:
Provided that where the case of infection has been duly reported no charge shall be made for the cost of such cleansing and disinfection, and reasonable compensation for property destroyed or damaged shall in such case be given.