CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 10

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Power of Governor

in Council

to make regulations.

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POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS.

8. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the transmission from, the Colony of any disease.

(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;

ance;

(d) for prescribing the fees to be paid under this Ordin-

(e) for placing under observation vessels and aircraft arriving or being at any port or place within the Colony or the waters of the Colony, and for their management while under observation, and for granting certificates of the con- dition of vessels and aircraft or of the Colony or any part thereof in respect of disease;

(f) for the deratisation of vessels or aircraft;

(g) for the disinfection and disinsectisation of vessels,

aircraft, persons, animals and things;

(h) for prohibiting either absolutely or conditionally, or for regulating, the importation, exportation or removal in the Colony of dead bodies;

(i) for prohibiting or regulating :-

(i) the admission of persons into or their movements within the Colony or their departure therefrom either absolutely or conditionally.

(ii) the importation of merchandise, food and drink;

(j) for establishing and maintaining quarantine stations for persons and for regulating the management of the same;

(k) for the detention and seclusion in a quarantine station or on board of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on vessels or aircraft subject to observation, and for the payment to Government of any costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and mainten- ance of any such persons;

(1) for prescribing the measures to be taken for the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any vessel or otherwise from any area or port of the Colony, including:-

(i) the measures that shall be applied to vessels or aircraft before departure;

(ii) the measures that shall be taken to prevent the departure of persons infected with or suspected of being infected with plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or small- pox, and of persons in such relation with the sick as to be rendered liable to transmit the infection of these diseases;

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(iii) the measures that shall be applied with respect to merchandise, articles or clothing infected or suspected of being infected;

(iv) the prohibition either absolutely or conditionally of the export of merchandise, or of articles of clothing infected or suspected of being infected;

(v) precautions with regard to drinking water and food- stuffs taken on board vessels, aircraft or trains and the water taken in as ballast by vessels;

(vi) measures for the prevention of access of mosquitoes to vessels or aircraft in the case of the prevalence of yellow fever;

(vii) measures for delousing typhus suspects before em- barkation; and

(viii) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags before packing where smallpox is prevalent;

(m) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof;

(n) for prescribing the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordin- ance or any regulation made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection there- with; and

(o) for prescribing the fine with which the contravention of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be punish- able, but so that no such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1) and for the prevention of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or communicable disease, such regula- tions may also provide

(a) for the compulsory reporting of infectious disease; (b) for entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants;

(c) for prohibiting or regulating the movements of dis- eased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts;

(d) for the removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts;

(e) for prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence

of a

diseased person

and which are reasonably suspected of being infected, and for the disinfection or destruction of the same;

(f) for ordering the vaccination of, and for ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of, houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any

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