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12.--(1) When a person is seen or found committing or Arrest. is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made there- under, any Health Officer or police officer may, without warrant, stop and detain him, and if his name and address are not known may arrest him.
(2) If any person obstructs or impedes a Health Officer or other officer appointed under this Ordinance or any police officer in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, or assists in any such obstruction or impeding, he may be arrested by such Health Officer or other officer or police officer without warrant.
(3) Nothing in this section shall take away or abridge any power or authority that a police officer would have had if this section had not been enacted.
13. If any person lands or attempts to land or otherwise Forfeitures. brings into the Colony any animal or thing in contravention of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, such animal or thing shall be liable to be forfeited: Provided that this section shall not apply to landing or bringing into a quarantine station any animal or thing under the instructions of a Health Officer.
of know-
14. When any occupant of a house in which a case of Presumption disease occurs, or any person in charge of a diseased person, ledge. is charged with an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, relative to such disease, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease in such person unless and until he shows to the magistrate before whom he is charged that he had not such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
to be under
15. The execution of the measures prescribed by this Measures Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall be prescribed carried out under the general direction of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
Part II.
general
direction of Director of Medical and
Sanitary Services,
THE PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE.
noxious
16. No person shall knowingly import into the Colony Import of any living noxious insect, or any living pest, or any living insects and germ or microbe of disease, or any bacterial culture, without pests. the written consent of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
diseased
persons.
17. Every master of any vessel or aircraft who brings Import of into the Colony any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease, or who removes any such person from one part of the Colony to the other, except on the order of a Health Officer, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless such master can show to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.
of infected
18. Whenever information is received that plague, Declaration cholera, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox has broken out, or port. exists, or is reasonably suspected to exist, at any place or
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