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Enclosure 2 in N-27
A BILL
ENTITLED
No. 10:- -[28.10.99]
An Ordinance to suppress the spread of infectious and contagious diseases.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide means to suppress
the sprea of infections and contagions diseases :
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consout of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the Short title. Infections and Contagious Diseases Ordinance, 1998.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise re- Interpreta-
tion. quires,-~
(see the bye- laws approv The expression "infectious or contagions disease"
includes small-pox, bubonic plague, cholera, diph-ed of by the theria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, entoric fever, re- Council, 25th lapsing fever, puerperal fever, venereal disease (in- Nov., 1895.) cluding primary and secondary syphilis, gonorrhoes, and soft chancres), and any other infectious or contagious disease to which this Ordinance may hereafter be applied by Order of the Governor-in- Council, made for that purpose:
The word "doctor" means a medical practitioner regis- tered under the Medical Registration Ordinances, 1884 to 1893, or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884: The expression "Hospital Authority" means aud in- cludes the Principal Civil Medical Officer and any assistant physician or surgeon in the Government Civil Hospital:
The expression "Captain Superintendent "
means
the Captain Superintendent of Police: The expression "occapier" includes a person having (62 & 53
16.)
the charge, management, or control of any premises Vict. c. 72, 8. or of the part of any premises, and, in the case of a house the whole of which is let out in separate lene- ments, or in the case of a lodging-house the whole of which is let to lodgers, the person receiving the ront payable by the tenants or lodgers either as bis own recount or as the agent of another person, and in the case of a ship, vessel, or boat the master or other person in charge thereof: The expression premises
as used in this Ordinance (Compare
shall apply to every building, ship, vessel, boat, tent, with 2 &
an Viet c. Tả room,shed or any structure used for habitation, except 8. 18.) that it shall not include any ship, vessel, or boat, which belongs either to Her Majesty The Queen or to any Foreign Government.
3.-1.) If any inmate of any premises be suffering from Report of
real disease. any infectious or contagious disease, the following provi- cases of rene- sions shall havo effect, that is to say :-
Penalty for (a) Such inmate and in default of such inmate the omission to party in charge of or in attendance upon such inmate, report.
Compare 52 and in default of such party the occupier of the pre- & 58 Vict. maisos shall, upon becoming aware or having reason 8. 72, 8. 3, to believe that anch innate is suffering from any such disease, forth with make a report respecting the exist- ence of such disease to the Captain Superintendent stating the name and address of such inmale; (b.) Every doctor attending on or called in to visit such inmate shall forthwith, où becoming aware that such jumate is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, make a report to the Captain Superintendent stating the nune and address of snel inmate. (c) Every such report as is mentioned in this section shall be made in writing, but it shall be placed in a sealed up cover and every such report and every such cover shalt be marked confidential, and shall be treated by the Captain Saperiutendent of Police in as strictly confidential a manner us shall be com patible with the due and proper working of this Ordinance.
(2.) Every individual who is required by this section to make a report and who fails forthwith so to do, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month: Provided that no person not required to make a report in the first instance, but only in default of some other party shall be liable to any fine if the Court is satisfied that such person had reason- able cause to suppose that such report had heen duly made
and believed that it had been made.
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