THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1939.
No. 621.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1936. (QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE).
In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Section 8 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, No. 7 of 1936, the Governor in Council hereby makes the following Regulations.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine (Measures on Arrival) Regulations, 1939.
2. Whenever the Governor in Council declares any port or place to be an infected port or place on account of plague, cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever, it shall be lawful for the Director of Medical Services by notification in the Gazette :
(a) to prescribe such measures of inoculation or vaccina- tion as he deems advisable, followed or not by surveillance or observation, of all persons who fail to produce valid certificates of inoculation or vaccination on arrival in Hong Kong:
(b) to specify either generally or particularly, having regard to the class and port of origin of passengers, what type or types of certificates are to be considered valid. Re- garding such certificates the Director of Medical Services may prescribe, among other things, the limits of validity, the fixation of photographs, the stamping or
"chopping with the seal of a public health department and the signature or countersignature by an official medical officer.
3. Notwithstanding the absence, in the case of small- pox, of such a declaration, the provisions of regulation 2 may be applied in respect of smallpox vaccination either to a particular class or to all persons arriving in the Colony.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
No. 622.
31st July, 1939.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922. (EMERGENCY REGULATIONS).
WHEREAS the Governor in Council considers that an occasion of emergency or public danger continues to exist justifying the exercise of powers conferred by section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922:
NOW THEREFORE by virtue and in exercise of such powers the Governor in Council makes the following regula- tion which shall be added as regulation 21A to the regulations made under the said section 2 on the 28th September, 1938, and published in the Gazette of 7th October, 1988, as Government Notification No. 775-
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