IMBECILE PERSONS (INTRODUCTION) ORDINANCE

IMBECILE PERSONS (INTRODUCTION) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 78.

IMBECILE PERSONS (INTRODUCTION).

To provide for the recovery of charges incurred on account of
imbecile persons introduced into the Colony.

[26th February, 1904.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Imbecile Persons
(Introduction) Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-

'person' means any passenger by any vessel, and also any member
of the crew of any vessel, and includes all other persons on
board and belonging in any capacity to any vessel;

'vessel' includes any ship or boat, or any other description of vessel
used in navigation, British or foreign.

3. (1) The owner, charterer, agent, consignee and master of every
vessel from which is landed without permission from the Director of
Medical and Health Services or Health Officer of the Port any person
not ordinarily resident in the Colony who, being at the time of landing
lunatic, idiotic or imbecile, becomes within a period of three months
from the date of landing a charge upon the public or upon any public
institution, shall be liable to repay to the Government any expense on
account of such person by reason of his care, maintenance or
repatriation, unless such owner, charterer, agent, consignee or master
can prove that such person became lunatic, idiotic or imbecile after
embarkation at the port or place from which he shipped: Provided that
such expense shall in no case exceed the sum of five thousand dollars
in the aggregate.

(2) In every case where permission to land any person from any
vessel is refused every such person shall be detained by the master on
board such vessel and shall be prevented, by force if need be, from
landing.

(3) In every case in which permission to land from any vessel is
refused the officer refusing shall give a certificate of such refusal to the
master of such vessel if so required by him.





(4) No action shall lie against the master of any vessel or any
person whomsoever for anything done in execution of the provisions
of this Ordinance.

4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to
shipwrecked mariners or other shipwrecked persons brought to the
Colony without charge by the master of a ship other than that in which
they were wrecked, nor to His Majesty's land, sea and air forces, nor to
distressed British seamen, nor to natives of the Colony, nor to persons
of Chinese nationality, nor to persons deported from China under the
provisions of the Orders in Council applicable to China.
Originally 1 of 1904. Fraser 1 of 1904. Short title. Interpretation. Owner, charterer, etc., liable in certain cases for expenses incurred by the Colony on account of lunatics becoming a charge on the public. Master to detain person on board in certain cases. certificate of refusal of permission to land. [s. 3 cont.] No action for anything done in execution of Ordinance. Exceptions.

Originally 1 of 1904. Fraser 1 of 1904. Short title. Interpretation. Owner, charterer, etc., liable in certain cases for expenses incurred by the Colony on account of lunatics becoming a charge on the public. Master to detain person on board in certain cases. certificate of refusal of permission to land. [s. 3 cont.] No action for anything done in execution of Ordinance. Exceptions.

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