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Vessels or aircraft when regarded as suspected.
Duration of period of incubation,
Conditions
of release from Quar. antine of
(d) in respect of typhus :-
if it has on arrival or has had during the voyage any case of typhus.
(e) in respect of yellow fever :-
(i) if there is a case of yellow fever on board; or
(ii) if there was a case at the time of departure or during
the voyage.
(f) in respect of infectious disease other than the above :-
if there is a case on board.
(3) A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded
"suspected"—
(a) in respect of plague :-
as
(i) if a case of plague broke out in the first six days after embarcation, or
(ii) if there has been an unusual mortality among rats the cause of which has not been determined.
(b) in respect of cholera :—
if there has been a case of cholera at the time of de- parture or during the voyage, but no fresh case during the five days previous to arrival.
(c) In respect of yellow fever :—
(i) if having had no case of yellow fever it arrives after a voyage of less than six days from an infected port or from a port in close relation with any endemic centre of yellow fever; or
(i) if having had no case of yellow fever on board it arrives after a voyage of more than six days and there is reason to believe that it may carry winged stegomyia (Aedes Egypti) from the said port.
3. The period of incubation for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be five days in the case of cholera, six days in the case of plague or yellow fever, twelve days in the case of typhus and fourteen days in the case of smallpox.
4-(1) Any person liable to be subjected to surveillance shall, as a condition of being exempted from quarantine, give a written undertaking to the Health Officer, or Port Health persons table Officer as the case may be, to attend and submit to daily to be subjected to examination at such place and at such time as the Health Surveillance.
Officer or the Port Health Officer shall appoint.
Schedule A,
Conditions
of release from Quar- antine of Contacts.
(2) the undertaking shall be in the form in schedule A. (3) Every failure to comply with the terms of such under- taking shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance.
(4) The Health Officer or Port Health Officer at his dis- cretion may require the person giving the undertaking to furnish security in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for the due execution of the undertaking,
5.-(1) The Health Officer or Port Health Officer may require that any contact liable to be detained in quarantine shall as a condition of being released from quarantine for the period of which he is liable give a written undertaking
(a) To attend and submit daily to examination at such place and at such time as the Port Health Officer or Health Oncer may appoint.
(b) To submit to surveillance at a private residence under such conditions as the Port Health Officer or Health Officer may impose.
(2) The undertaking shall be in the form of schedule A. Schedule A.
(3) Every failure to comply with the terms of such under- taking shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance.
(4) The Health Officer or Port Health Officer at his dis- cretion may require the person giving the undertaking to furnish security is a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for the due execution of the undertaking.
antine or
6. In all cases where this Ordinance refers to "Surveil- Substitution lance" the Health Officer or Port Health Officer may substitute of Quar- Quarantine or Observation when the persons in question do not observation offer sufficient security that they will faithfully observe all the for Sur- conditions of the undertaking which those who are granted surveillance are required to give. Such Quarantine or Ob- servation may be carried out on board ship or in a Quarantine Station according to the exigencies of the case.
veillance.
7.-(1) Any person who is authorised to be detained Escape or under this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder in evasion. case of escape may be arrested by :--
(a) any officer or servant of the hospital, reception place, isolated house, or quarantine station from which the escape was made;
(b) any officer appointed under this Ordinance; or (c) any police officer;
and may be again conveyed to and detained in the place from which the escape was made or any other place authorised by the Health Officer.
(2) Any person who being subject to surveillance under this Ordinance or regulations made thereunder fails to present himself for examination or to observe any term of his under- taking may be similarly arrested and isolated to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.
(3) Any person who having been authorised to be detain- ed escapes or attempts to escape shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS.
Governor
8. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations Power of for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread council in and the transmission from, the Colony of any disease. Lo make
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions
of sub-section (1) such regulations may provide :-
(a) for the appointment of Health Officers, Inspectors and other officers to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any regulations or by-laws made thereunder and for regulating their duties and conduct and for investing them with all powers necessary for the due execution of their duties;
(b) for prescribing the reporting to Government by Medical Practitioners or others of cases of disease;
(c) for prescribing and regulating the form and mode of service of delivery of notices and other documents;
regulations.
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