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No. 44.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1883. · 日五十月八年未癸 日五十月九年三十八百八千

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 304. The following Quarantine Laws and Regulations are published for general information.

By Command,

VOL. XXIX.

簿九十二

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1883.

ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1883.

J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,

for the Colonial Secretary.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1879, Amendment Ordinance, 1883.

[20th July, 1883.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. Ordinance of 1879 is hereby amended by striking out the words of Section 25 and substi- tuting in place thereof the words :—

"The Governor in Council may from time to time make, and when made, revoke, add to, or alter “such regulations as the Governor in Council may deem necessary for maintaining and enforcing an "effectual quarantine in the ports and waters of the Colony, and for the setting apart of suitable places in available situations for Quarantine Stations, and providing for the detention and seclusion “in such places of persons arriving on board vessels subjected to quarantine."

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"Any person offending against any such regulations shall be liable on summary conviction before "a Police Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment with or without hard "labour for any term not exceeding 12 months, or at the discretion of the Police Magistrate to both penalty and imprisonment, and the Captain Superintendent of Police and any officers that he may "appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, shall have the same powers to prevent the commis- "sion of breaches of such regulations, and to arrest, recapture, or detain offenders against them as may "be used by any person for the prevention of any felony, or the arrest, recapture, or detention of a

felon."

2. Ordinance 16 of 1882 is hereby repealed, provided that such repeal shall not affect the past operation of the said Ordinance, or anything done or suffered thereunder, or any liability or punishment in respect thereof.

Sec. 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 amended.

Governor in Council may make Quaran- tine Regulations.

Penalty for breach of Quarantine Regu lations; and powers of Police to arrest, &c.

Repeal,

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Provisions of Section 1 of Ordinance 9 of 1883.

1. In these Regulations the term Vessels includes Steamers, Sailing Vessels, Junks, and Lorchas, and British and Foreign Ships of War, as well as Merchant Vessels of all kinds.

2. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony

(a.) After a voyage of less than 10 days from any port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's departure therefrom, or

(b.) Having at the time of arrival, or having had within 10 days of the time of arrival any

eases of infectious or contagious disease on board,