1955-HKRS30-8-45_Part04 — Page 10

Exercise

of health officer's

powers.

Medical

practi- tioners to report in- fectious diseases.

Schedule,

3. Where, under these regulations, a power is given to a health officer to do any act or thing the same may be done by any person acting under his direction.

PART II.

Notification.

4. (0) Where any medical practitioner or medical officer has reason to suspect the existence of a case of an infectious disease or, in the case of death, that an infectious disease existed, he shall forthwith notify the Director of Medical and Health Services.

(z) (2) Notification required by paragraph (1) shall be made on the prescribed form and shall be signed by the medical practitioner.

(b) The Director of Medical and Health Services shall supply free copies of the prescribed form upon request to medical practitioners and officers in charge of police stations.

(3) A medical practitioner on making application to the Director of Medical and Health Services within one month of any notification made under paragraph (1) shall be entitled to receive in respect thereof the sum of two dollars:

Provided that-

(4) Government medical officers shall not be entitled to

receive such fees; and

(b) only one fee shall be payable in respect of each case of

an infectious disease.

(4) Where a medical practitioner confirms or disproves the existence of any infectious disease, concerning which he had notified the Director of Medical and Health Services, he shall forthwith report the said confirmation or disproof to the Director of Medical and Health Services.

5. (1) Where any person, not under the care of a medical Other practitioner is known to be suffering or to have died from any report infectious disease a report thereof shall forthwith be made to—

(a) a health officer; or

(b) a police officer on duty at the nearest police station or the medical officer in charge of the nearest public dis- pensary or to any health inspector, who in turn shall inform the health officer.

(2) Such report shall be made by-

(a) in the case of an inmate of any premises-

(i) the occupier or keeper of such premises; or (ii) the nearest adult relative living on such premises; or

(iii) any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick

person or dead body; or

(b) any person having knowledge of the case of an infectious

disease.

persons to

infections disease,

6. Where any sick person is in any hotel, boarding house Sick or common lodging-house the keeper of such institution shall persons in

hotels, forthwith make a report to any of the persons mentioned in para- boarding

houses or graph (1) of regulation 5.

T.

(1) Any person who-

(a) being required by these regulations to make a report concerning any infectious disease, or any death there- from, neglects without reasonable excuse to make such report with the least practicable delay; or

(b) knowingly furnishes any information which is false

concerning any such disease or death,

shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

(2) Any person charged with an offence under this regulation shall be presumed to have known of the existence of the infectious disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.

COMMON

Lodging

houses.

Offences.