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Declaration by Master, Surgeon or Supercargo.
Penalty.
Penalty.
Ship to be dealt with according to provisions of this
Ordinance.
Proceedings
to be taken
regarding infected. suspected and contact vessels.
Penalties for
preventing Port Health Officer
inspecting ship.
Signals on vessels in
quarantine.
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33. (1) The master, surgeon and supercargo shall make and sign before the Port Health Officer a true declara- tion as to the number of crew and passengers, the presence of prevalence of infectious disease on board or during the voyage, the number of deaths and such other particulars as may be required by the Port Health Officer.
(2) Such declaration purporting to be signed by the master, surgeon and supercargo shall be deemed to have been so signed and any information therein contained, which shall subsequently be found to be untrue, shall render such master, surgeon or supercargo liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars each and to imprisonment on summary conviction for any term not exceeding six months.
(3) Any master, surgeon, or supercargo who fails to make and sign a declaration as herein required, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
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34. The Port Health Officer, after making such enquiry, inspection or examination, shall deal with the ship. persons and things on board such ship in the manner provided by this Ordinance or by the regulations made thereunder.
35. The proceedings which shall be taken with regard to the vessel, the cargo, the passengers and the crew are detailed in the sections prescribing the precautionary measures which shall be taken against each class of infectious disease.
36. Any master or other person who :-
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(a) prevents or attempts to prevent the Port Health Officer from going on board any ship.
(b) conceals from the Port Health Officer the true state of the health of the crew or passengers or other persons on board any ship;
(c) refuses to answer or gives an untrue answer to any enquiry made by the Port Health Officer under this Ordinance':
(d) fails to produce the journal or log and ships papers of any ship or any of them on demand of the Port Health Officer:
(e) fails to present the crew and passengers for inspection when required to do so by the Port Tealth Officer:
(prevents or attempts to prevent the Port Health Officer from inspecting any part of the ship.
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
37. The master of every vessel undergoing quarantine shall during the daylight fly at the foremast heard the quarantine flag and at night display two lights a red over a green at a distance of not more than six nor less than four feet.
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restrict move-
38. The Inspector General of Police and any officer Power of whom he may appoint for the purpose, may order any person Police to leaving from an infected, suspected or contact vessel or any ments of vessel in quarantine or taking or sending any person or thing persons or
things to whatsoever from such vessel, to remain in, or return to, such and from vessel and may, by such necessary force as the case requires, quarantine. compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same
vessels in
Port Health
on board
39. Whenever the Port Health Officer shall so require Power of all passengers on board any vessel in quarantine or so many Officer as as he may direct shall be taken to a quarantine station and to passengers there kept and attended to for such a time as he may deem vessels in proper before allowing them to return on board the ship or quarantine. to be transferred to any other ship or to land in the Colony. The period of detention shall in no case be greater than is permitted by this Ordinance or any regulations made there- under.
detention of
40. The Port Health Officer may detain in a quarantine Power of station until such time as the disease is no longer com- infected municable to other people any person desirous of landing in persons the Colony and who on arrival is found to be suffering from landing. an infectious disease.
desirous of
41. In case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of the Power of
Port Health Colony having on board the body of any person who has died Officer with from an infectious disease. the body shall be disposed of in regard to such manner as may be ordered by the Port Health Officer; disposal of
infections and the Master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as the corps. Port Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.
station may
42. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine Trespassers station without permission may be detained and kept under quarantine observation at his own expense for such period not exceeding be detained. fourteen days as the Port Health Officer may deem proper.
or
Government
43. Any costs and expenses charged or incurred by the costs Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical incurred by attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the may be ship's articles or not, who is removed to any hospital or place recovered
from owners from any vessel or aircraft under this Ordinance or
the or agents. regulations made thereunder for medical treatment surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel or aircraft. or who dies after removal to hospital, or of any dead body found on board any vessel or aircraft, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or aircraft. or of the merchandise on board any vessel or aircraft, or of any part of the vessel or aircraft or of the merchandise. including the hire of the necessary labour, boat, junks, and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.
assistance.
44. The Inspector General of Police shall furnish such Police to police assistance as the Port Health Officer requires for the furnish purpose of enabling him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder and to deal with vessels and aircraft and persons and things on board thereof in the prescribed manner.
45. Nothing in this Ordinance or regulations made there Exempion under shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruc- tion any articles being part of any mails conveyed under the
of postal
niatter.
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