1826
Penalty.
*
Inquiry into
cases of leprosy.
Power of
order lepers to be removed to and detained in asylum.
No. 24 of 1910.
LEPERS.
6. Every person wilfully neglecting to give such information as aforesaid, and every police officer wilfully neglecting to report the same as aforesaid, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
7. On the receipt of such report as aforesaid, the Principal Civil Medical Officer shall forthwith forward it for the information of the Governor, and such inspection and examination of the alleged leper shall be held and such report made thereon as the Governor shall order, or as shall be prescribed by regulations in that behalf made under section 13.
8. After such inspection, examination, and report as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall think fit, to order the leper or alleged leper to be removed to and detained in a leper asylum: Provided always that no person shall be removed to or detained in a leper asylum unless he has first been certified to be suffering from leprosy by two medical practitioners, one of whom shall be either the Principal Civil Medical Officer or a medical practitioner appointed by the Governor to inquire into cases of suspected leprosy for the purposes of this Ordinance.
Lepers able to provide effective
9.-(1) No such order for removal or detention shall be made if the leper or alleged leper shall in the opinion of the Governor be able to provide for himself at his own place of abode effective isolation and medical treatment, and shall within the time prescribed by the Governor carry out such directions as the Governor may give for securing such isolation; but in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor to prescribe rules for observance by such leper or alleged leper in order to secure such isolation.
(2) In the event of the disregard or breach of any such rules, the Governor may order such leper or alleged leper to be removed to and detained in a leper asylum under section 8.
10. No person detained as a leper in a leper asylum shall leave the asylum without the permission in writing of the officer in charge, and every person acting in contravention of this section may be arrested by any police officer without warrant and conveyed forthwith to the asylum.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.