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Segregation if Director considers it necessary.
Lepers not
to leave settlement without
permission.
Prohibition of leper immigration.
Lepers.
5. (1) If after such inspection and examination the Director finds the person to be a leper and deems it necessary that he should be segregated, he may order the removal of the leper to, and his detention in, a leper settlement.
(2) The Director shall not make such order if in his opinion the leper is able to provide for himself effective isolation and medical treatment elsewhere and if the leper undertakes to secure such isolation and treatment and to abide by such directions as the Director may prescribe.
(3) In the event of any disregard or breach of such undertaking or directions the Director may at any time order the removal of the leper to, and his detention in, a leper settlement.
6. No person detained as a leper in a leper settlement shall leave the settlement without the permission in writing of the officer in charge, and every person acting in contravention of this section may be arrested by any police officer, or by any officer or servant of the settlement, without warrant and conveyed forthwith to the settlement.
7. (1) No person, not being a subject of His Majesty, suffering from leprosy shall enter the Colony without a permit from the Director.
(2) The Governor in Council may by order prohibit any leper, not being a subject of His Majesty, who is found within the Colony without such permit, or after any period of residence allowed by such permit has expired, and who cannot show that he has contracted the disease in the Colony, from residing or being within the Colony for such period as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Governor in Council may by the same or any subsequent order direct his departure and fix the time for his departure from the Colony.
(3) The leper named in such order shall be detained in the custody of the police until he leaves the Colony and any such order shall be sufficient authority to all police officers to effect his expulsion by any convenient vessel or train as often as may be found necessary.
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САР. 135]
Segregation if Director considers it necessary.
Lepers not
to leave settlement without
permission.
Prohibition of leper immigration.
Lepers.
5. (1) If after such inspection and examination the Director finds the person to be a leper and deems it necessary that he should be segregated, he may order the removal of the leper to, and his detention in, a leper settlement.
(2) The Director shall not make such order if in his opinion the leper is able to provide for himself effective isolation and medical treatment elsewhere and if the leper undertakes to secure such isolation and treatment and to abide by such directions as the Director may prescribe.
(3) In the event of any disregard or breach of such undertaking or directions the Director may at any time order the removal of the leper to, and his detention in, leper settlement.
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6. No person detained as a leper in a leper settlement shall leave the settlement without the permission in writing. of the officer in charge, and every person acting in contravention of this section may be arrested by any police officer, or by any officer or servant of the settlement, without warrant and conveyed forthwith to the settlement.
7. (1) No person, not being a subject of His Majesty, suffering from leprosy shall enter the Colony without a permit from the Director.
(2) The Governor in Council may by order prohibit any leper, not being a subject of His Majesty, who is found within the Colony without such permit, or after any period of residence allowed by such permit has expired, and who cannot show that he has contracted the disease in the Colony, from residing or being within the Colony for such period as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Governor in Council may by the same or any sub- sequent order direct his departure and fix the time for his departure from the Colony.
(3) The leper named in such order shall be detained. in the custody of the police until he leaves the Colony and any such order shall be sufficient authority to all police officers to effect his expulsion by any convenient vessel or train as often as may be found necessary.
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