CAP. 141]

[r. 2 cont.]

G.N. 68/46.

Quarantine and Prevention of Disease.

ed valid. Regarding such certificates the Director of Medical and Health 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 of such a declaration, the Governor in Council may by notification in the Gazette declare that all or any of the provisions of regulation 2 may be applied to a particular class of or all persons arriving from particular ports or places or to a particular class of or all persons arriving in the Colony, irrespective of the port or place from which they have come.

G.N.A. 159/50.

Citation.

Interpretation.

(Cap. 141.)

Fumigation of cargo from infected port.

QUARANTINE (PLAGUE) REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 141, section 8). (Ordinance No. 7 of 1936).

[21st July, 1950.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Quarantine (Plague) Regulations.

2. "health officer", "infected place", "infected port" and "vessel" have the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance.

3. No vessel, entering the harbour within 48 hours of leaving a place or port declared by the Governor to be an infected place or port by reason of the prevalence there of plague and having taken on board at such place or port feathers, sacks or rags as merchandise, shall be permitted to discharge cargo unless-

(a) the vessel has been fumigated to the satisfaction of a health officer; or

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