LEPERS.

No. 24 of 1910.

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without

11. Every person found within the limits of a leper asylum without the written permission of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, or without lawful authority, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

Officer and officer in

12. The Principal Civil Medical Officer shall have and exercise all the powers of a magistrate with respect to all offences committed by persons detained as lepers in a leper asylum. And it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint any medical officer having charge of any leper asylum to have and exercise all the powers of a magistrate therein. Every decision given under this section shall be subject to the same rights of appeal as the decisions of a magistrate.

powers of

13. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes:-

(1) the inspection, examination, and removal of lepers to a leper asylum;

(2) the proper management and sanitation of leper asylums;

(3) the discipline and good order of the inmates of leper asylums;

(4) the custody and imprisonment within such asylums of lepers accused of and found guilty of offences;

(5) regulating the sittings and procedure of courts to be held under this Ordinance; and

(6) generally, for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance, and for the well-being of such asylums and the inmates thereof.

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Every person acting in contravention of any regulation shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.

regulations.

14. (1) No person, not being a subject of His Majesty, suffering from leprosy shall enter the Colony.

(2) The Governor in Council may, by order, prohibit any leper, not being a subject of His Majesty who enters the Colony from residing or being within the Colony for such

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,

of leper immigration.

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