LEPERS ORDINANCE, 1910

LEPERS ORDINANCE, 1910

No. 24 of 1910.

an ordinance to provide for the segregation and treatment of lepers.

[2nd September, 1910.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lepers Ordinance,
1910.

2. it shall be lawful for the governor in council to appoint
such places as he shall think fit to be leper asylums for the
segregation and treatment of lepers; and every such asylum
shall comprise such area as the governor shall define by
proclamation. no leper asylum shall be established by any
private person.

[s. 3, rep. no. 12 of 1912.]

4. Any person detained as a leper in a leper asylum may
by the special permission of the Governor erect or cause to
he erected for hinisef a dwelling-house at his own expense
within the limits of the asylum in which he is detained
subject to such conditions as to plan, site, drainage, and

otherwise as to the Governor shall seem fit.

5. It shall be the duty of every person having knowledge

of a leper or of a person reasonably suspected of being a
leper in any place outside the limits of any leper asylum, to
give Information thereof to the officer in charge of a police
station, who shall forthwith report the saine to the Principal
Civil Medical Officer.

As amended bY Law rev. Ord., 1924.





6. Every person wilfully neglecting to give such informa-
tion as aforesaid, and every police officer wilfully neglecting

to report the same as aforesaid, shall upon summary
conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

7. On the receipt of such report as aforesaid, the Principal
Civil Medical Officel. shall forthwith forward it for the
information of the Governor, and such inspection and ex-
ainination of the alleged leper shall be held and such report
made thereon as the Governor shall order, or as shall be
prescribed by regulations in that behalf made under section 13.

8, After such inspection, examination, and report as afore-
said, it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall think fit,
to order the leper or alleged leper to be removed to and
detained in a loper asylum; provided always that no person
shall be removed to or detained in a leper asylum unless ge
has first been certified to be suffering from leprosy by two
medical practitioners, one of whom shall be either the
Principal Civil Medical Officer or a medical practitioner
appointed by the governor to inquire Into case of suspected
leprosy for the purposes of this Ordinance.

9.-(1) No such order for removal or detention shall be
inade if the leper or alleged leper shall in the opinion of the
Govemor be able to provide for himself at his of
abode effective isolation and medical treatment, and shall
within the time prescribed by the Governor carry out such
directions as the Governor may give for securing such
isolation; but in every such case it shall be lawful for the
Governor to prescribe rules for observance by such loper or
alleged leper in order to secure such isolation.

(2) In the event of the disregard or breach of any such
rules, the Governor may order such leper or alleged leper to
be removed to and detained ina leper asylum under section 8.

10. No person detained as a leper in a leper asylum Shall.
leave the asylum 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 without
warrant and conveyed forthwith to the asylum.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





11. every person foxind within the limits of a leper asylum
without the written permission of the Principal Civil Medical
Officer, or without lawful authority, shall upon summary
conviction be liable, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

12. The Principal civil medical officer shall. have and
exercise all the powers of a magistrate with respect to all
offences committed by persons detabied as lepers in a leper
asylum. And it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint

any medical officer having. charge of any leper asylum to
have and exercise all the powers of a magistrate therein.
every decision given under this section shall be subject to
the same rights of appeal as the decisions of a magistrate.

13. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations for any of the following purposes:-

(1) the inspection, examination, and removal of lepers to
a leper asylum ;

(2) the proper management and sanitation of leper asylums;

(3) the discipline and good order of the inmates of leper asylums;


(4) the custody and imprisonment within such asylums of
lepers accused of and found guilty of offences.

(5) regulating the sittings and procedure of courts to be
held under this ordinance; and

(6) generally, for the better carrying out of provisions
of this ordinance, and for the well-being of such asylums
and the inmates thereof.

every person not acting in contravention of. any regulation
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceed-
ing fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding one month.


14.(1)No person, not being a subject of his majesty,
suffering from leprosy shall enter the Colony.

(21) The Governor in council may, by order, prohibit any
leper, not being a subject of His majesty who enters the,
Coloiiy from residing or being within the colony for such

AS amended by law rev. ord., 1924





period as the Governor in Council may think fit, and may,
by the same or any subsequent order, order his departure
and fix the time for such departure from the colony.


(3) The leper named in such order shall be detained in
the coustody of the olice until he leaves the colony or until
the departure form the colony of any vessel by which he
leaves

15. Every person who knowingly harbours or conceals
any person suffering from leprosy shall upon summary
conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars.

16.-(1) The governor shall appoint, with their consent.
justices of the peace to be visitors of leper asylums for
periods to be specified in such appointments.

(2) Such visitors shall. be at liberty to enter any such
asylum at all times and make such inquiry or examination
therein as may be deemed necessary, and shall make such
reports to the Colonial Secretary as may be required by order
of the governro.

No. 25 of 1910, repealed bY No. 2 of 1920.

No. 26 of 1910, incorporated in No. 10 of 1910
No. 27 of 1910, incorporated in -No. 1 of 1873

No. 28 of 1910, repealed by No. 42. of 1912.

No. 29 of 1910, incorporated in No. 9 of 1910.

No, 30 of 1910, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 3 1 of 1910, repealed by No. 9 of 1910
No. 32 of 1910, incorproated in no. 1 of 1869.

No. 33 of 1910, incorporated in. No. 23 of l909.

as amended by law rev. ord., 1924.
see also proclamation no. 1 of 1920.

[Originally No24 of 1910. Law Rev. Ord., 1924] Short title. Governor in Council may estblish leper asylums. Lepers may build separate dwellings in asylum for their own use. Duty of persons to give information of existence of lepers. Penalty. Inquriy into cases of leprosy. Power of Governor to order lepers to be reoved to and detainedf in asylum. Lepers able to provide effective isolation and medical treatment, not removable to asylum. Lepers not to leave asylum without permission. No person to enter asylum without permission. Principal Civil Medical Officer and medical officer in charge of asylum to exercise powers of magistrate. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Prohibition of leper immigration. Penalty for harbouring or concealing lepers. Appointment and duties of visiting justices.

[Originally No24 of 1910. Law Rev. Ord., 1924] Short title. Governor in Council may estblish leper asylums. Lepers may build separate dwellings in asylum for their own use. Duty of persons to give information of existence of lepers. Penalty. Inquriy into cases of leprosy. Power of Governor to order lepers to be reoved to and detainedf in asylum. Lepers able to provide effective isolation and medical treatment, not removable to asylum. Lepers not to leave asylum without permission. No person to enter asylum without permission. Principal Civil Medical Officer and medical officer in charge of asylum to exercise powers of magistrate. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Prohibition of leper immigration. Penalty for harbouring or concealing lepers. Appointment and duties of visiting justices.

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