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Repeal and replace- ment of section 10,

Repeal and replace- ment of section 18.

Amend.

ment of

11. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Import of human remains.

18. (1) No person shall knowingly import into the Colony any human corpse, human remains, living noxious in- "noxious insect, living pest, any living germ or microbe of disease or any bacterial culture without a permit in writing from the Director of Medical and Health Services.

Becta and

pesta.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services may endorse on such permit such conditions as be deems fit.

(3) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any condition on such a permit shall be guilty of an offence."

12, Section 18 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section-

"Infected port to be certified.

18. Whenever information is received that any quarantinable disease has broken out, or exists, or is reasonably suspected to exist at any place or port the Director of Medical and Health Services may certify that such place or port is an infected place or infected port for the purposes of this Ordinance, and may publish in the Gazette the measures intended to be taken against such infected place or infected port under this Ordinance.**

13. Sections 22 and 31 of the principal Ordinance are sections 22 amended by the deletion in each case of the words "referred to in

section 21".

and 31,

Amend-

ment of section 23.

Amend- ment of section 25.

14. Section 23 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the words "upon which a health officer shall find, in the course of his examination, any case of infectious disease, and every vessel referred to in section 21".

16. Section 25 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the words "referred to in section 31" and the substitu- tion therefor of the following-

"showing the quarantine signal".

ment of

section 26.

16. Section 26 of the principal Ordinance is amended by Amend- the deletion of the words "showing the quarantine signal" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"which is an infected or suspected vessel with respect to any quarantinable disease'',

17. Section 27 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and Repeal and replaced by the following-

*Prohibi- tion of landing Passengers from

certain

vessels before in- spection. Duty to report infectious disease.

27. (1) No master of any vessel or aircroft shall land or permit to land or to be landed from his vessel or aircraft any passengers until they have been inspected and passed by a health officer, and a master shall afford all reasonable facilities for enabling such inspection to be duly carried out.

(a) The master of any vessel or aircraft shall report to a health officer any case of infectious diseasc which he knows to exist, or to have existed during the voyage, on his vessel or aircraft.

(3) (a) Except with the permit in writing from

a health officer no master of any vessel or aircraft shall land or permit to land or to be landed from his vessel or aircrafı any person whom he knows to be suffering from an infectious disease.

(b) Any master of a vessel or aircraft who lands or permits to land or to be landed any such person without permission shall, on demand from a health officer, forthwith remove such person from the Colony.''

replace. ment of exction 27.

18. Section 28 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amend. deletion of the words "plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or ment af smallpox" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"any quarantinable disease".

section 28.

Amend-

19. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following new subsection- ction 32.

"((A). When required by a health officer, the master of any aircraft shall make and sign a true declaration as to the presence or prevalence of an infectious disease on

ment of