CO129-554-16 Lepers Ordinance 1935 14-6-1935 - 13-7-1938 — Page 16

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Segregation

if D.M.S.S.

considers it

necessary.

Lepers not to leave settlement without permission.

Prohibition of leper immigration.

Appointment and duties of visiting justices.

Repeal of Ordinance

No. 24 of 1910.

5.—(1) If after such inspection and examination the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services finds the person to be a leper and deems it necessary that he should be segregated, he may order the removal of the leper to, and his detention in, a leper settlement.

(2) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall not make such order if in his opinion the leper is able to provide for himself effective isolation and medical treatment elsewhere and if the leper undertakes to secure such isolation and treatment and to abide by such directions as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may prescribe.

(3) In the event of any disregard or breach of such undertaking or directions the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may at any time order the removal of the leper to and his detention in a leper settlement.

6. No person detained as a leper in a leper settlement shall leave the settlement without the permission in writing of the officer in charge, and every person acting in contraven- tion of this section may be arrested by any police officer, or by any officer or servant of the settlement, without warrant and conveyed forthwith to the settlement.

7.—(1) No person, not being a subject of His Majesty, suffering from leprosy shail enter the Colony without a permit from the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.

(2) The Governor in Council may by order prohibit any leper, not being a subject of His Majesty, who is found within the Colony without such permit, or after any period of residence allowed by such permit has expired, and who cannot show that he has contracted the disease in the Colony, from residing or being within the Colony for such period as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Governor in Council may by the same or any subsequent order direct his departure and fix the time for his departure from the Colony.

(3) The leper named in such order shall be detained in the custody of the police until he leaves the Colony and any such order shall be sufficient authority to all police officers to effect his expulsion by any convenient vessel or train as often as may be found necessary.

8.-(1) The Governor shall appoint, with their consent, justices of the peace to be visitors of leper settlements for periods to be specified in such appointments.

(2) Such visitors shall be at liberty to enter any such settlement at all times and shall make such enquiry or examination therein as may be deemed necessary and shall render such reports to the Colonial Secretary as they think fit or as may be required by the Governor.

9. The Lepers Ordinance, 1910, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 13th day of June, 1935.

H. R. BUTTERS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.