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Hospitals and

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

ambulances.

the course of their duty upon any warning of the imminence of an attack by the enemy;

(b)

sanitary authority means, as respects the island of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon, the Chairman of the Urban Council, and as respects any other part of the Colony, the officer in charge of the police station of the district in which a body is found;

(c) "body" includes part of a body.

68.-(1) As respects any hospital, the Director of Medical Services and any person authorized by him to act under this regulation may give such directions with respect to the management and use of the hospital as the Director thinks necessary for securing that proper hospital treatment is readily available for persons in this Colony who are suffering from any injury, disease or incapacity in consequence of war operations, or who leave their homes in consequence of, or in apprehension of, attacks by the enemy; and the Director of Medical Services may by order relax any obligation or limitation which by, or by virtue of, any Ordinance or other instrument determining the functions, is imposed on the persons having the management, of the hospital.

(2) With a view to ascertaining whether any directions given under this regulation in relation to a hospital are complied with, any person authorized in that behalf by the Director of Medical Services may at any time enter and inspect any premises used for the purposes of the hospital.

(3) Any person concerned in, or employed in connexion with, the management of a hospital shall, if requested by or on behalf of the Director of Medical Services so to do, furnish such information relating to the hospital as the Director considers. it necessary for the purposes of this regulation to obtain.

(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) of this regulation shall apply in relation to any ambulance service, not being a service main- tained for the purposes of any police force or fire brigade, as they apply in relation to a hospital.

(5) The Director of Medical Services, if it appears to him necessary so to do for securing that proper hospital treatment is readily available for persons in this Colony who are suffering from any injury, disease or incapacity in con- sequence of war operations, or who leave their homes in con- sequence of, or in apprehension of, attacks by the enemy, may manage any hospital or authorize a person to manage it in accordance with any instructions of the said Director; and while, by virtue of this paragraph, the Director of Medical Services or a person so authorized is managing any hospital-

(a) he shall be deemed to be acting as agent of the persons who would otherwise have the management of the hospital, except that those persons shall not have any right to control the management thereof; and

(b) those persons shall not be bound by any obligation or limitation imposed on them by or by virtue of any Ordinance or other instrument determining their functions.

(6) In this regulation the expression "hospital" includes any sanatorium, convalescent home, public assistance institu- tion, mental hospital or mental deficiency institution, and any

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