Short title.
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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 4 :—18 1.35.—10.]
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among human beings.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (Quarantine and Prevention of Disease) Ordinance, 1935.
Part I.
GENERAL.
Aerodrome.
Aircraft.
Authorised aerodrome.
Building.
Circum- scribed
case.
Contact.
Interpretation.
2.-(1) In this Ordinance :-
'Aerodrome" means a place set apart for the arrival and departure of aircraft and includes a place for the landing of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water. Whatever relates in this Ordinance to aerodromes is to be understood to apply mutatis mutandis to places for the landing of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water.
"Aircraft" includes any machine which can derive sup- port in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air and is intended for aerial navigation.
"Authorised aerodrome" means any aerodrome declared by the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be an authorised aerodrome on which aircraft may make their first landing on entering the Colony and which they may make their place of departure on leaving the Colony.
"Building" includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether needed for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge.
"Circumscribed case" means either a case of infectious disease originating in a quarantine station or an imported case which has been immediately isolated in a quarantine station or a case occurring in a new arrival during the period of his quarantine or surveillance.
"Contact" means any person who has been or is likely to have been exposed to the risk of contracting an infectious dis-
ease.
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