CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 30

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Objects and Reasons.

1. This Ordinance repeals Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 and re-enacts it as amended in consequence of suggestions made by the Ministry of Health in their letter of the 22nd August, 1935, enclosed with the Secretary of State's despatch No. 383 of the 19th September, 1935.

2. The Ministry of Health pointed out—

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(a) that the inclusion of separate definitions for "dis- ease "infectious disease" and " quarantinable disease " might lead to confusion and suggested that the use of the latter term to describe the five diseases referred to in the International Sanitary Convention, 1926, should be avoided. These points are dealt with in sections 2, 18 and 28 of the new Ordinance.

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(b) that the term quarantine is used in Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 as synonymous with observation" and suggested that it would be better and likely to avoid confusion if the international term observation only were used and that the term " quarantine" might be deleted. This point has been dealt with to a considerable extent in sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 28, 36, 37, 44, 85, 87 and 94 and in the Schedule. The word " quarantine is still however retained in the long and short titles and in the references to Quarantine Anchorages, Quarantine Signals and Quarantine Stations. The existing Quarantine Anchorages set out in section 16 of Table M to Ordinance No. 10 of 1899 as amended by Govern- ment Notifications Nos. 264 and 297 of 1933 are well known under that name and it would probably cause confusion to describe them as Observation Anchorages. Moreover the word quarantine appears in many of the Articles of the International Sanitary Convention Articles 136 and 148 of which refer to quarantine stations.

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(c) that the definition of "Sanitary aerodrome " in section 2 of the principal Ordinance was inadequate and suggested that it should be expanded to accord with Article 5 of the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1933. This is dealt with in section 2.

(d) that section 2 (2) (c) and 2 (2) (d) of Ordinance. No. 12 of 1935 did not conform to the International Sanitary Convention, 1926, and suggested their deletion as well as an amendment of section 58. These points are dealt with in sections 2 and 58.

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(e) that the terms contact vessel and contact air- craft were to be deprecated. This point has been dealt with in sections 2, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31 and 36, and in the marginal note to section 50.

(f) that section 30 of Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 was somewhat stringent and might lead to difficulties and delays unless some kind of general authorisation is envisaged. The same observation appears to apply also to section 86. These sections are amended accordingly by the addition of the words

either generally or specially,

(g) that section 35 of Ordinance No. 12 of 1935 pre- scribed no signal for healthy ships and suggested that the whole section might be amended so as to follow Part II of the Third Schedule to the Port Sanitary Regulations, (Statutory Rules and Orders 1933, No. 38), in force in England. This point is dealt with in the new section 35.

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