CHINESE PASSENGER SHIPS ORDINANCE

CHINESE PASSENGER SHIPS ORDINANCE

Chinese Passenger Ships.

No. 6 of 1859.

An Ordinance for providing Hospital Accommodation on board Chinese
Passenger Ships, and for tire Medical Inspection of the Passengers
and Crews about to proceed to Sea in such Ships.

[26th December, 1859.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to provide for the allocation of f. space o1i
board.
Chinese passenger ships, for the purposes of a hospital or sick bay, and
also
for the medical inspection of the passengers and crews on beard such ships, with a
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view to the better securing the health of passengers therein: Be it
enacted and`
ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of
the Legis--''
lative Council thereof, as follows:-

anU properly
fitted up.

Hospital noaom- 1. In every Chinese passenger ship there shall be a
sufficient space properly
moUntlon to be
prwlaetl divided off to the satisfaction of the Emi'ration Officer at the
port of clearance, to be
used exclusively as a hospital or sick bay for the passengers; this space
shall be either -
under the poop, or in the round-house, or in any deck-house which shall
be properly
built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on
the upper'pas--
senger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less
dimensions than eigh-
teen clear superficial feet for every fifty passengers which the ship
shall carry. Such

hospitals shall be fitted with bed places, and supplied with proper beds,
bedding, and
utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of
clearance, -and.
shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.

al>aCO for he,.
pit., to be Incht-
tleft in meuautv-
ment of capa.
city for pueacn-
aera.

1'neaaugere and
crow to ho exu-
mlnoU before
culling, by some
meAlenl practt-
tlonor.

Certiflcnte not
to be granted
unless the pro.
vInna hereof
nhull have been
ConrplieV with.

2. In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of
determining:
the number of passengers to be carried in any Chinese passenger ship, the
space for
the hospital shall be included.

3, No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any
voyage of-
more than seven days' duration, until some medical practitioner shall
have certified to.
tlio Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall be
satis,d, that none of-
the

, passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease;'.
unfit, to-
proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about
to proceed
in such vessel; and a medical inspection of the passengers for the
purposes;:944 iving~
such certificate shall take place either on board the vessel, or, at the
diacr4,QV-0i` the
said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on shore, before
embaAAtipn.;,,as he-
may appoint; and the master, owner, or cliarterer of the ship, shall pay
to 13u'obi, medi-
cal practitioner a sum at the rate of twenty-five current dollars, for e4
y~0.hunclred
persons so examined: Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any
particular
occasion shall be unable to obtain such certificate as aforesaid, or the
attendance of.a
medical practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of au
inspection
foe at a higher rate than chat hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful
for the said
Emigration Officer to dispense with such medical inspection as aforesaid,
and to sa-
tisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall
receive the fee
hereinbefore ordained to be paid,) of the fit sanitary state of the crew
and passengers:
Provided also, that all foes received under this section by the
Emigration Officer, or
Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be, within three days after the
receipt thereof,
paid over by the officer receiving tbom into the Treaaury,.to the use of
the Crown.

4. No Emigration Officer shall give the certificate required by the
'Chiilese Pas-.
sengera' Act, 185,' in respect of any Chinese passenger ship, unless he
be satisfied as,
aforesaid with the hospital accommodation in such ship provided, and with
the san

-

state of the crew and q5`assengers thereto belonging.
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5. Thin Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's
confirmation Saipanding

claus0.
thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency tile
Governor.

g, In the interpretation of this Ordinance the term 'Chinese Passenger
Ship' rntvrprotvti<n

clause,
shall have the same meaning as is attached thereto under the pct of the
Imperial
Parliament passed in the eighteenth and nineteeth pears of the reign of
Her present
Majesty, known as the 'Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.'

7. This Ordinance may be cited for any purpose whatever under the name u£
the short title (it'
Ordinance.
'Chinese Passengers' Health Ordinance.'

[Confirmation Proclaimed 21st May, 1860. Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1874.]
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Preamble.
Hospital accommodation to be provided.
and property fitted up.
Space for hospital to be inlcuded in measurement of capacity for passengers.
Passengers and crew to be examined before sailing, by some medical practitioner.
Certificate not to be granted unless the provisions hereof shall have been complied with.
445

Suspending clause.
Interpretation clause.
Short title of Ordinance.

443

Preamble.
Hospital accommodation to be provided.
and property fitted up.
Space for hospital to be inlcuded in measurement of capacity for passengers.
Passengers and crew to be examined before sailing, by some medical practitioner.
Certificate not to be granted unless the provisions hereof shall have been complied with.
445

Suspending clause.
Interpretation clause.
Short title of Ordinance.

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