BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER) REGULATIONS

BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION
OF DISEASE.

Subsidiary legislation under this Chapter with sub-
sequent amendments (if any) incorporated, is set. out as
follows-

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Boats and Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations ... 190
Quarantine (Measures on Departure) Regulations 191
Quarantine (Measures on Arrival) Regulations ... 193
Quarantine (Plague) Regulations ... ... ... ... ... 194

BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER)
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 141, section 8).
(Ordinance No. 7 Of 1936).

[17th September, 1937.]

1. In these regulations-
'water boat' has the same meaning as in the regulations
made under the Merchant Shippin- Ordinance, 1899;

'drinking water' means water used or supplied for human
consumption, but does not include water supplied solely
for other purposes.

12. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any
regulatlions made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,
1899, or any licence granted in pursuance of such regula-
tions, no vessel shall ply as a water boat unless the vessel
and all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings,
appliances and utensils for the storage of water therein, for
the supply of water therefrom or used in connexion there-
with have been approved by the Director of Medical and
Health Services and are maintained in good repair and in
a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.





(2) No person shall supply any water to any water
boat or any drinking water from any wharf unless all the
tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings, appliances
and utensils used for or in connexion with the supply of
such water ' have been approved by the Director of Medical
and Health Services and are maintained in good repair and
in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation 'in a sanitary
condition' shall be deemed to include such limewashing,
cement washing, disinfection and cleansing as the Director
of Medical and Health Services may from time to time
direct.

3. No animal or bird shall be suffered to be in or upon
any water boat, or, in any place where it inay pollute any
water with which water boats are supplied.

4. Every person supplying water to any water boat,
every person in charge of any water boat and every person
supplying drinking water from any wharf shall permit the
Director of Medical and Health Services, any officer deputed
by him and any health officer to inspect the supply or the
water boat and to take samples of water therefrom.

5. No person shall supply, or suffer to be supplied, to
or from any water boat any water or from any wharf any
drinking water which the Director of Medical and Health
Services declares unfit for human consumption.

6. Any person who acts in contravention of regulation
2, 3, 4 or 5 shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

7. These regulations may be cited as the Boats and
Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations.

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE)
REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 141, section 8).
(Ordinance No. 7 Of 1936).

[28th June, 1939.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Quarantine
(Measures on Departure) Regulations.
G.N. 659/37. (Ord. 10/1899). G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46.

G.N. 659/37. (Ord. 10/1899). G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46.

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