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A BILL

[No. 41-2.12.36.-1.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Quarantine and Prevention of

Disease Ordinance, 1936.

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 Quarantine and Short title. Prevention of Disease Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. The definition of "Infectious disease" in sub-section Amendment

of Ordinance (1) of section 2 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease No. 7 of Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the insertion of the words 1936, ", puerperal fever, scarlet fever, rabies" after the word "diphtheria".

s. 2 (1),

for Ordin-

3. Section 21 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Substitution Disease Ordinance, 1936, is repealed and the following section ance No. 7 is substituted therefor :-

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

of 1936, s. 21.

Time limits to harbour

for admission

has

on

of vessels which are

in infected,

or

suspected. arriving from an infected

port, or having, or having had during the

voyage, a case of smallpox or typhus on board.

of Ordinance

4. Section 23 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Amendment Disease Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the deletion of the No. 7 of word "Every" at the commencement thereof and by the 1936, s. 23. substitution therefor of the words "Every vessel upon which a Health Officer shall find, in the course of his examination, any case of infectious disease, and every".

for Ordin-

5. Sub-section (1) of section 32 of the Quarantine and Substitution Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, is repealed and the following sub-section is, substituted therefor :-

(1) When required by a Health Officer, the master and surgeon of every vessel shall make and sign a true declaration as to the number of the crew and passengers, the presence or prevalence of infectious disease on board or during the voyage, the number of deaths, and such other particulars as may be required by such Health Officer.

ance No. 7 of 1936, s. 32 (1).