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Health

vessels

37. Whenever a Health Officer shall so require, all Power of passengers on board any vessel under observation or so many Officer as as he may direct shall be taken to a quarantine station and to passengers there kept and attended to for such a time as he may deem on board proper before allowing them to return on board the vessel or under ob- to be transferred to any other vessel or to land in the Colony. servation. The period of detention shall in no case be greater than is permitted by this Ordinance or any regulation made there- under.

detention of

38. A Health Officer may detain in a quarantine station, Power of until such time as the disease is no longer communicable infected to others, any person desirous of landing in the Colony persons who on arrival is found to be suffering from an infectious disease.

39. In the case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of the Colony having on board the body of any person who has died from an infectious disease, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by a Health Officer; and the master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as such Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.

desirous of

landing.

Power of Health Officer with

regard to disposal of corpse.

infectious

on quaran- tine station

40. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine Trespasser station without permission may be detained and kept under observation at his own expense for such period not exceeding may be fourteen days as a Health Officer may deem proper.

detained.

Costs incurred by Government

recovered from owners or agents.

41. Any reasonable costs and expenses charged or incurred by the Government for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical attendance and maintenance of any person, may be whether on the ship's articles or not, who under this Ordin- ance or the regulations made thereunder is removed to any hospital or place from any vessel or aircraft for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any person who may die on any vessel or aircraft, or who dies after removal to hospital, or for the burial of any dead body found on board any vessel or aircraft, or for the cleansing and disinfection of any vessel or aircraft, or of the merchandise on board any vessel or aircraft, or of any part of the vessel or aircraft or of the merchandise, including the hire of the necessary labour, boats, junks and disinfecting appliances, shall be paid to the Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.

furnish

assistance.

42. The Inspector General of Police shall furnish such Police to police assistance as any Health Officer may require for the purpose of enabling him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder and to deal with vessels and aircraft and persons and things on board thereof in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance.

43. Nothing in this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any articles being part of any mails conveyed under the authority of the postal administration of any country, except in the case of such importation as is pro- hibited under section 16.

Exemption

of postal matter.