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21.--(1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony may be visited by the Port Health Officer, who may exercise all or any of the powers vested in him by section 32 and shall Port Health deal with the ship in the manner prescribed by or under this
Ordinance.
visited by
Officer.
Master to furnish information to Health Officer or Boarding Officer.
Time limits for
admission to harbour of infected,
suspected and
(2) Every master of such vessel or aircraft shall allow and assist on board without delay the Port Health Officer as soon as he comes alongside.
(3) The master or any other person having the control of any vessel or aircraft shall give to the Health Officer, officer in charge of aerodrome or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel or aircraft and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the officer may require and shall answer truly and fully all the questions put to him by any such officer.
22. No infected, suspected or contact vessel shall enter the harbour limits before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. without the permission of the Port Health Officer.
contact vessels.
Infected, suspected
and contact
23. Every infected, every suspected and every contact vessel on entering the waters of the Colony shall fly and keep flying the quarantine flag, and shall not communicate with Ay quarantine the shore until granted pratique by the express written order
vessels to
flag on
arrival.
Vessels
required to proceed to quarantine anchorage.
Position at quarantine anchorage determined
by Harbour Master.
No com- munication
allowed with infected, suspected and contact vessels.
of the Port Health Officer, provided nevertheless, that any such vessel, which is on a voyage to any other place and which has held no unauthorised communication with the shore, may with the written consent of the Port Health Officer proceed on such voyage or tranship the passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage.
24. Every infected, every suspected and every contact vessel shall, unless previously granted pratique, proceed at once to the quarantine anchorage and shall not remove therefrom except from stress of weather, until released by order of the Port Health Officer. No vessel which is compelled to leave the quarantine anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate except by signals with the shore, or with any other vessel, and such vessel shall return to the quarantine anchorage immediately such stress of weather has subsided: Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be subject to all other enactments applicable to such vessels.
25. The master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the quarantine anchorage, as and when required by the Harbour Master.
26. Subject to the provisions of section 27, no person other than the Port Health Officer, or persons in his boat, shall approach within thirty yards of an infected, suspected or contact vessel, or hold any communication except by signals with such vessel or with any person on board thereof, or receive or take any person or thing whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from the vessel or from any person on board thereof without having first received the express written permission of the Port Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Port Health Officer may require.