LEPERS ORDINANCE

LEPERS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 135.

LEPERS.

To provide for the segregation and treatment of lepers.

[14th June, 1935.]

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

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by notification in
the Gazette to appoint such places as he shall think fit to be leper
settlements for the segregation aiid treatment of lepers; and every
such settlement shall comprise such area as the Governor shall define
by proclamation.

3. The Governor in Council way by regulations prescribe or
provide for

(a)inspection, examination, and removal of lepers to a leper
settlement;

(b)proper management and sanitation of leper settlements;

(c)discipline and good order of the inmates of leper settlements;

(d)provision of hospital accommodation out-patient clinics and
other facilities for the medical treatment and care of lepers;

(e)offences aiid penalties regarding regulations made hereunder
: Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed a fine
of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for three months;

(F) generally, the better carrying out of the provisions of this
Ordinance, and the well-being of leper settlements and the
inmates thereof.

4. If it shall be brought to the notice of the Director of Aledical
and Health Services hereinafter referred to as the Director that any
person is alleged to be, or is suspected of, suffering from leprosy, lie
may cause an inspection and examination of the person to be held of
such nature as may be prescribed by regulations made tinder section 3,
or if there be no such appropriate regulation then of such nature as he
may deem sufficient.





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.





8. (1) The Governor shall appoint, with their consent,
justices of the peace to be visitors of leper settlements for
periods to be specified in such appointments.

(2) Such visitors shall be at liberty to enter any such
settlement at all times and shall make such inquiry or
examination therein as may be deemed necessary and shall
render such reports to the Colonial Secretary as they think
fit or as may be required by the Governor.
25 of 1935. 46 of 1936. 22 of 1950. Short title. Governor in Council may appoint places to be leper settlements. Regulations. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Inquiry into cases of alleged leprosy. Segregation if Director considers it necessary. Lepers not to leave settlement without permission. Prohibition of leper immigration. Appointment and duties of visiting justices.

25 of 1935. 46 of 1936. 22 of 1950. Short title. Governor in Council may appoint places to be leper settlements. Regulations. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Inquiry into cases of alleged leprosy. Segregation if Director considers it necessary. Lepers not to leave settlement without permission. Prohibition of leper immigration. Appointment and duties of visiting justices.

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