Amend.
ment of
section 53.
Addition
of new sections 56A and
56E.
Schedule.
Schedule.
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(2) Upon application in respect thereof, a health officer shall inspect any vessel, and where he does not exercise the powers vested in him under subsection (1), he shall-
(a) issue to the master of such ship a deratting certificate in the form in the Schedule, or (b) extend the validity of the ship's deratting certificate for a period not exceeding one month.
(a) Every vessel proposing to leave the Colony shall produce to the person whose duty it is to grant a port clearance a deratting certificate in the form in the Schedule, and no such port clearance shall be issued in respect of any vessel until the production of such certificate."
30. Section 53 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of paragraph (c) and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph-
Schedule.
"(e) (i) those passengers and crew in possession
of cholera certificates of vaccination, in the form set out in the Schedule, or who are in the opinion of the health officer protected by vaccination against cholera, may be subject to surveillance during a period not exceeding five days reckoned from the date of arrival; (ii) those passengers and crew who in the opinion of the health officer are not protected by vaccination against cholera may be isolated for a period not exceeding five days reckoned from the date of arrival."
31. The principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion after section 56 of the following new sections-
"Precau tionary measures in respect of certain
56A. (0) Where any vessel or aircraft arrives from a place or port certified to be an infected place or infected port in respect of cholera a health officer
food-stuffs. may-
(a) order to be kept on board; or
(b) destroy
any fish, shell-fish, fruit, vegetables or beverages:
Stool examina- tion.
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Provided that this section shall not apply to any such food or beverages in sealed containers which in the opinion of a health officer are not contaminated. (2) No person shall unload any of the articles referred to in subsection (1).
668. Where any person arrives from any place or port certified to be an infected place or infected port in respect of cholera a health officer may carry out a stool examination."
32. Section 59 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
Amend- ment of
(a) by the insertion in paragraph (b) after the words "to section 58.
vaccination" of the following-
"or vaccination**
(b) by the deletion of the colon at the end of paragraph (b)
and the substitution therefor of the following-
"or isolation :".
ment of
33. The principal Ordinance is amended by the repeal of the Amend- heading "Typhus Precautionary Measures" and of section 60 and principal the substitution therefor of the following-
Typhus and re- lapsing fever
precau- tionary
mensures
in case
of infected vessels or aircraft.
"Typhus and Relapsing Fever Precautionary Measures.
60. (1) Vessels or aircraft which have, or have had during the voyage, a case of typhus or relapsing fever on board shall be subject to the following
mensure-
(a) medical inspection,
(b) the sick shall be immediately disembarked,
isolated and disinsected,
(c) other persons reasonably suspected to harbour lice, or to have been exposed to infection, shall be disinsected and may be subjected to surveillance during a period which shall not exceed fourteen days in the case of typhus and eight days in the case of relapsing fever from the date of the disinsecting,
(d) bedding, linen, wearing apparel and other articles which a health officer considers to be infected shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected,
Ordinance.
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