1154 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31, 1936.
HONG KONG.
No. 54 OF 1936.
I assent.
L.S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
Short title.
Amendment
No. 7 of
1936,
31st December, 1936.
An Ordinance to amend the Quarantine and Prevention of
Disease Ordinance, 1936.
[31st December, 1936.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Amendment Ordinance, 1936.
2. The definition of "Infectious disease" in sub-section of Ordinance (1) of section 2 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the insertion of the words puerperal fever, scarlet fever, rabies" after the word 'diphtheria".
s. 2 (1).
Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 7
of 1936, s. 21.
Time limits
for admission to harbour
of vessels
which are infected, suspected, arriving
from an infected port, or having, or having had during the
voyage, a case of smallpox or typhus on board.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 7 of 1936, s. 23.
3. Section 21 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:
21. No infected or suspected vessel, no vessel which has come from an infected port, and no vessel which has, or has had during the voyage, a case of smallpox or typhus on board, 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.
4. Section 23 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the deletion of the word "Every" at the commencement thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "Every vessel upon which a Health Officer shall find, in the course of his examination, any case of infectious disease, and every".