A.D. 1899.]
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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15. Where a vessel has passengers on board who are in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition or is overcrowded with passengers, emigrants or otherwise, the Health Officer may, if in his opinion it is desirable with a view to checking the introduction of any infectious or contagious disease to Quarantine and on his certifying to that effect, order such vessel to proceed to the Quarantine Anchorage or to such place as he may direct, and may detain under observation or surveillance the passengers and crew for such period, not exceeding ten days from the arrival of the vessel, as he may direct; and if the vessel is also an "infected" or "suspected" vessel, the measures prescribed in Regulation 6(a) and 6(b) respectively may also be enforced.
16. Any costs and expenses charged or incurred by the Government for the medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who is removed to the Hygeia or any other hospital or place from any vessel, under these Regulations, for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel or of any dead body found on board any vessel, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or of the merchandise on board any vessel or of any part of the vessel or of her merchandise, including the hire of any necessary labour, boats, junks, hulks, premises on shore, and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to the Government on demand by the owners or agents of the vessel.
17. Where any breach of any of the preceding Regulations is committed, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach, and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach, shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.
18. The preceding Regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's ships or Foreign ships of war, with their freedom to proceed to sea, whenever the officer in command may deem such course requisite.
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19.(a) The preceding Regulations (with the exception of Regulations 15 and 16) shall not apply to any vessel which has on board as surgeon or medical officer a medical practitioner who is entered on the articles of agreement or any similar document, if, after entering the waters of the Colony, the master of the vessel signs a certificate, in the Form No. 1 in the Appendix to these Regulations, to the effect that there has been no sickness of an infectious or contagious nature on board such vessel within a period of twelve days previous to the date of arrival of the vessel within the waters of the Colony. And if the surgeon or medical officer of the vessel, after entering the waters of the Colony, signs a certificate, in the Form No. 2 in the said Appendix, to the same effect, with the addition that he has seen every person on board such vessel within the twelve hours immediately preceding his signature thereto. In default, however, of either of such certificates being signed, the preceding Regulations shall apply.
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