CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 13

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port without the Colony it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare that such place or port is an infected place or infected port.

All declarations made under this section shall be notified in the Gazette.

19. (1) All persons coming from an infected place or inspection or port otherwise than by sea or air may be medically inspected

examination

of arrivals

from infect.

ed places

or ports

otherwise

than by sea.

Any vessel

or aircraft may be

visited by Health Officer,

Duties of master.

Master to furnish information to Health Officer or Boarding Officer,

Vessels

refusing to submit to measures

prescribed.

Aircraft

to submit

to measures

or examined by a Health Officer.

(2) The inspection or examination shall be conducted at such place as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall approve.

(3) In the case of persons arriving by rail the railway authorities shall allow sufficient time and make due arrange- ments for the examination to take place.

20. (1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony may be visited by a Health Officer, who may exercise all or any of the powers vested in him by section 31, and shall deal with the vessel or aircraft in the manner prescribed by or under this Ordinance.

(2) Every master of such vessel or aircraft shall allow and assist on board without delay a Health Officer as soon as he comes alongside.

(3) The master or any other person having the control of any vessel or aircraft shall give to a Health Officer, officer in charge of aerodrome or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel or aircraft and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the officer may require and shall answer truly and fully all the questions put to him by any such officer.

(4) Any vessel refusing to submit to the measures pre- scribed by or under this Ordinance shall be at liberty to put to sea. She may however be permitted by a Health Officer to land goods if she is isolated and if the goods are subjected to the measures laid down in sections 47 (iv), 53 (iv), 58 (iv) and 60 (iv). She may also be authorised by him to disembark passengers at their request on condition that they submit to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance. vessel may also take on fuel, foodstuffs and water.

The

(5) Subject to the provisions of section 61, any aircraft

not wishing which does not wish to submit to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance is at liberty to continue its voyage. It may not however land in any other aerodrome in the Colony except for the purpose of taking in supplies. It may be per-

prescribed.

Time limits for admission to

mitted by a Health Officer to land goods on condition that it is isolated and that the goods are subjected, if necessary, to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance. It may also take in fuel, replacements, food and water while remaining in isolation.

21. No infected or suspected vessel, and no vessel which has come from an infected port and which has not been harbour of granted free pratique in Hong Kong, shall enter the harbour limits before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. without the permission of a Health Officer.

vessels

infected,

suspected

or arriving

from an infected port.

on Vessels

which are

22. (1) Every vessel referred to in section 21 entering the waters of the Colony shall show the appro- to show priate quarantine signal as prescribed by section 35, and shall quarantine not communicate with the shore until granted pratique by signal, the express written order of a Health Officer: Provided nevertheless that any such vessel, which is on a voyage to any other place and which has held no unauthorised communica- tion with the shore, may with the written consent of a Health Officer proceed on such voyage or tranship the passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage,

(2) The aforesaid quarantine signal shall not be lowered until a Health Officer has given free pratique.

quarantine

23. Every vessel referred to in section 21 shall, unless Vessels

which are previously granted pratique, proceed at once to the quarantine required to anchorage and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress proceed to of weather, until released by order of a Health Officer. No anchorage. vessel which is compelled to leave the quarantine anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate except by signals with the shore or with any other vessel, and such vessel shall return to the quarantine anchorage 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 never- theless for all purposes to be subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.

24. The master of every vessel shall remove his vessel

to any part of the quarantine anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master.

Position at

quarantine anchorage determined by Harbour Master.

allowed with

25. Subject to the provisions of section 26, no person No com other than a Health Officer, or persons in his boat, shall munication approach within thirty yards of any vessel referred to in certain section 21, or hold any communication except by signals vessels, with such vessel or with any person on board thereof, or receive or take any person or thing whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from the vessel or from any person on board thereof without having first received the express written permission of such Health Officer, and without observing such precautions as he may require.

board vessel

26. The pilot may board a vessel showing the quarantine Pilot may signal for the purpose of taking it to the quarantine anchorage. showing In no case shall any member of his crew or other person quarantine

signal. board the vessel unless authorised by a Health Officer.

passengers

before

27. No master of any vessel referred to in section 21 Prohibition bringing passengers into the Colony shall land or permit to of landing land or to be landed from his vessel any such passengers from certain until they have been inspected and passed by a Health Officer, vessels and the master shall afford all reasonable facilities for inspection. enabling such inspection to be duly carried out. No master shall land or permit to land or be landed from his vessel at any place within the Colony any infected person except with the permission of a Health Officer, and any master from whose vessel any infected person is landed without permission shall, on demand from a Health Officer, forthwith remove such person from the Colony.

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