HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among human beings." He said: Sir, I rise to move the first reading of the Public Health (Quarantine and Prevention of Disease) Bill.
This enactment will not only replace the inadequate provisions for Quarantine and Prevention of Disease which have been contained hitherto in the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, but it will also provide an up to date code for Quarantine and Prevention of Disease among human beings on lines considered necessary by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. It will be seen from the Table of Correspondence that its provisions are based in part on the existing enactments and in part also on those of Malaya as well as on certain International Conventions.
Part I is general and includes definitions, periods of incubation, conditions of release from quarantine, substitution of quarantine or observation for surveillance, escape or evasion, power of the Governor in Council to make Regulations, offences and penalties. Part II deals with the prevention of the Introduction of Disease and Part III with the prevention of the spread of Disease. I now move the first reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:
This is a new Ordinance, drafted in the main by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services to provide an up to date code for Quarantine and Prevention of Disease among human beings which has been inadequately dealt with hitherto under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899. It is one of a series of Bills which have been drafted to replace the former Ordinance.
PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE, 1935.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among animals and birds." He said: Sir, I rise to move the first reading of the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Bill.
This Bill is complementary to the last and provides an up to date code for the quarantine and prevention of disease among animals and birds. It is based, as shown in the Table of Correspondence, partly on existing provisions of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and partly on Malayan precedents. It is divided into various headings dealing with the prevention of the introduction of infectious
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