THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26, 1921.
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Regulation made by the Governor in Council under section 37 of the Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, the 25th day of August, 1921.
The regulations made by the Governor in Council under Section 37 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Ördinance No. 10 of 1899, on the 5th day of April, 1917, and published in the Gazette on the said 5th day of April, 1917, as Government Notification No. 141 as amended by the regulation made by the Officer Administering the Govern- ment in Council on the 3rd day of October, 1918, and published in the Gazette on the 4th day of October, 1918, as Government Notification No. 381 are amended by the addition thereto of the following regulation :----
38. The master of every launch or motor boat when conveying passengers shall be responsible that such launch or motor boat is carefully steered and travels with reasonable expedition and shall permit any passenger travel- ling on such launch or motor boat not being a ferry to disembark at any place where such passenger can lawfully disembark without risk when requested by such passenger to do so.
No. 363.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 6 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1893, Ordinance No. 5 of 1893, this 25th day of August, 1921.
1. In these regulations
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(a.) Dogs Quarantine Station" means the place for the time being set apart
by the Government for the quarantine of dogs.
(b.) "Quarantine Permit" means a permit by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon solely for the purpose of enabling a dog imported or brought into the Colony to be landed or brought in and taken to the Dogs Quarantine. Station.
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(c.) Clean Certificate" means a certificate by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon that a dog may be landed in or brought into the Colony without any quarantine restrictions.
(d.) "Imported" means brought into the Colony by water on board a vessel of
any description.
2. The person having the custody control or care of any dog which has or may reasonably be suspected of having rabies shall report the fact to the nearest Police Station without delay.
3. The person having the custody control or care of any dog that is or is suspected of having rabies or of having been in contact with a rabid animal shall on receipt of notice from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon requiring him so to do forthwith take such dog to the Dogs Quarantine Station to be detained there for such period as the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may prescribe.
4. No owner or person having the custody control or care of any dog shall allow such dog if imported to be landed in or if not imported to be brought into the Colony until he has received from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon either a clean certificate or a quarantine permit. Provided that a dog brought into the Colony by rail may, subject to any regulations or directions of the Railway Authorities, be allowed to proceed as far as the terminus of the railway as Tsim Sha Tsui but shall not be removed therefrom until the owner has obtained either a clean certificate or a quarantine permit.
5. No clean certificate will be issued except on the production to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of the following documents:--
(a.) A certificate to the satisfaction of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon dated not more than two months before such dog is imported or brought into the Colony, from a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon or a Medical
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Officer of Health or a British Consular Authority that for a period of 6 months immediately prior to the date of such certificate no case of rabies has been known to occur in any district in which such dog has been; and
(b.) In case of an imported dog a statutory declaration by the Master of the Vessel by which such dog has been imported or by the owner if he has travelled on the vessel with the dog that no case of rabies has occurred on board the vessel during the voyage.
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Provided that the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may in his discretion, on being satisfied that no case of rabies has occurred in the place or places where such dog has Leon during the period of 6 months immediately proceeding such importation or that there is no reasonable fear of such dog having been in contact with rabies, dispense with the certificate mentioned in (a) of this regulation. Provided also that the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may in his discretion and on such conditions as he thinks fit grant clean certificates in advance in respect of duly licensed sporting dogs to allow such dogs when taken into Chinese Territory to be brought back therefrom.
6. The owners charterers and agents of any vessel which arrives in the waters of the Colony having on board any dog consigned to or intended for any person in the Colony shall report the arrival of such dog forthwith to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon giving the name and address of the owner or consignee of such dog and the description of such dog.
7. The master of any vessel which arrives in the waters of the Colony shall not permit any dog to be removed from such vessel until there shall have been produced to him a clean certificate or quarantine permit issued in respect of such dog.
8. The owner or person having the custody control or care of any dog in respect of which he has received a quarantine permit shall at his own expense immediately after receiving such permit take such dog to the Dogs Quarantine Station to be detained there for such period as the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may prescribe.
9. The fee payable by the owner of any dog while in the Dogs Quarantine Station shall be 10 cents per day or such other fee as the Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe. All fees shall be payable at the end of each month and before the removal of such dog from the Dogs Quarantine Station. The Colonial Veterinary Sur- geon may destroy any dog in respect of which the fees due remain unpaid for a period of 15 days after becoming due without prejudice to the recovery from the owner of all fees and other sums then due, or may sell such dog and out of the proceeds of sale thereof defray the amount of such fees. No compensation shall be payable to the owner of any dog so destroyed or sold.
10. Every dog while in the Dogs Quarantine Station shall be at the risk of the owner and no liability shall attach to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or to any other person in respect of such dog.
11. Any dog found without such badge as is prescribed by section 4 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1893, may be destroyed by order of the Captain Superintendent of Police or the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon without prejudice to any penalty which the owner or the person having the custody control or care thereof may be liable to under any law or regulation.
12. If the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is of opinion that any dog is suffering from rabies it may be destroyed by him or by any person by his orders and no compensation. shall be payable to the owner of such dog or any other person in respect thereof.
13. The Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 6 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1893, on the 20th day of March, 1899, and the 19th day of April, 1900, and published on pages 244 and 245 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1914, as amended by the Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the said Ordinance on the 7th day of October, 1920, and published in the Gazette on the 15th day of October, 1920, as Government Notification No. 513 and the Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the said Ordinance on the 23rd day of December, 1920, and published in the Gazette on the 31st day of December, 1920, as Government Notification No. 623 and the Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council on the 21st day of April, 1921, and published in the Gazette on the 21st day of April, 1921, as Government Notification No. 171 are hereby repealed.