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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.

POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS.!!!

8.—(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations Power of for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread overuncil 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;

() 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;

to make regulations.

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