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entitled to
seeing
express an opinion - that the seamen and
Troops stationed at this port far exceed in numbers the small
proportion of European residents.
15th February, 1886. (Signed) W. H. Marsh.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 77.
The subjoined amended Quarantine Regulations are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1886.
ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1883.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1879, Amendment Ordinance, 1883.
[20th July, 1883.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof,
as follows:-
BE
1. Ordinance 8 of 1879 is hereby amended by striking out the words of Section 25 and substi- tuting in place thereof the words :—
The Governor in Council may from time to time make, and when made, revoke, add to, or alter "such regulations as the Governor in Council may deem necessary for maintaining and enforcing an "effectual quarantine in the ports and waters of the Colony, and for the setting apart of suitable places in available situations for Quarantine Stations, and providing for the detention and seclusion "in such places of persous arriving on board vessels subjected to quarantine.”
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"Any person offending against any such regulations shall be liable on summary conviction before "a Police Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment with or without hard "labour for any term not exceeding 12 months, or at the discretion of the Police Magistrate to both "penalty and haprisonment, and the Captain Superintendent of Police and any officers that he may "appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, shall have the same powers to prevent the comnis- "sion of breaches of such regulations, and to arrest, recapture, or detain offenders against them as may "be used by any person for the provention of any felony, or the arrest, recapture, or detention of a "Iclon."
2. Ordinance 16 of 1882 is hereby repealed, provided that such repeal shall not affect the past operation of the said Ordinauce, or anything done or suffered thereunder, or any liability or punishment in respect thereof,
Sec. 25 of Ordinance
8 of 1879 amended,
Governor in Council may make Quaran- tiue Regulations,
Penalty for breach
of Quarantine Regu- lations; and powers of Police to arrest.
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Repeal.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Provisions of Section I of Ordinance 9 of 1883.
1. All previous regulations made under the Provisions of Section 1 of Ordinance 9 of 1883 are hereby revoked.
2. In these Regulations the term Health Officer means the Health Officer of the Port or any other Medical Officer duly authorized to act for, or assist him; the term Vessels includes Steamers, Sailing Vessels, Junks, and Lorchas, and British and Foreign Ships of War, as well as Merchant Vessels of all kinds; the term port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed means a port or place proclaimed to be such by order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette from the date of such proclamation.
3. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony
(a.) After a voyage of less than 3 days from any port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's departure therefrom; or
(b.) Having at the time of arrival, or having had, during the voyage, any case of any
infectious or contagious disease on board; or
(e.) Having on board any passengers who are less than 3 days from any port or place where any infectious or contagious disease prevailed when such passengers departed
therefrom,
shall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony fly the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released therefrom by express written order of the Health Officer, who shall, in every case, board and examine all the passengers and crew of such
vessel.
The Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.
No such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 A.M. or after 7 P.M.
4. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the Quarantine Ground, and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from quarantine by order
the Health Officer.
No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Ground from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Ground immediately such stress of weather has subsided. Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be in quarantine, and subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.
5. The Quarantine Ground shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Ground as and when required by the Harbour Master:--
Western Boundary.-A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters' Island to West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary).
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