QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS

(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.





2. Whenever smallpox in epidemic form or plague,
cholera, yellow fever ol- t~7p]]Lis exists ill the Colony, it shall
be lawful for the G(-wernor in Council 1)v notification in the
Gazette from time to time to declare that the provisions of
regulation - shall have effect, and shall continLIC in force
until suspended by the Governor in Council by a subsequent
notification in the Gazelle.

3. Before the deparwre from the Colony of all vessels
and aircraft, except SLICII vessels or aircraft as the Director
of Medical and Health Services may specifically exempt-
(a)the vessel ol- aircraft, especially the parts liable to
contamination sliall be thOrOLIghl), cleansed;
(b)the passengers and the crew shall be inspected by
a health officer and shall produce such evidence of
recent vaccination against sniallpox or inoculation
against cholera ol- other disease as such officer may
require ; .
(c)any person showing signs of one of the. diseases
named in recsulation 2 and all persons in SLICII CIOSC
b
relation to a person kno,,vri to be infected as to
render then-i liable to transmit the infection Of SLICII
disease, shall leave the vessel or aircraft at the
request of any,' health officer;
(d) personal effectswhich are riot reasonably clean
shall be from the vessel or ,ili-ci*;tft at the
request of any health officer ;
(c)any health o~icel. who has reason to suspect the
presence of rats on board may require the VCSSCI
or aircraft to be deratised, if the restrictions are
imposed on aCCOLInt Of plague;
if the restrictions are imposed on account of typhus,
any health officer may require the persons and
effects of any person who after medical inspection,
lie considers likely to convey infection to be dis-
insectised.

4. The provisions of regulation 3 may be applied in
whole or in part, nttttatis inulandis, to ever\' rneans of
transportation whereby persons depart from the Colony and
the provisions of paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (f) of regula-
tion 3 may be likewise applied to passengers on foot out of
the Colony.
5. Whenever it appears expedient to the Governor in
Council, in order to give effect ot the provisions of the
International Sanitary Convention, 1926, or any amendment
or modification thereof or any convention substituted for
the same for the time being in force, he may, by notification
in the Gazette from time to time declare that any or all of
the provisions of regulation 3 shall apply to all vessels and
aircraft, or to any class or description of vessel or aircraft
which is bound for, or will in the ordinary course of her
voyage call at, any country, port or place specified in the
notification, and the provisions shall apply to all such vessels
and aircraft, or every vessel and aircraft of such class or
description as aforesaid from the date of the notification
until suspended by a subsequent notification.

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON ARRIVAL) REGULATIONS

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

[4th August, 1939.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Quarantine
(Measures on Arrival Regulations.

2. Whenever the Governor in Council declares any
port or place to be an infected port or place on account of
plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus or yellow fever, it shall
be lawful for the Director of Medical and Health Services
by notification in the Gazette-

(a) to prescribe such measures of inoculation or vaccination
as he deems advisable, followed or not by
surveillance or observation, of all persons who fail
to produce valid certificates of inoculation or
vaccination on arrival in Hong Kong;

(b) to specify either generally or particularly, having
regard to the class and port of origin of passengers,
what type or types of certificates are to be consider-
G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 621/39. G.N. 68/46. G.N. 68/46.

G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 621/39. G.N. 68/46. G.N. 68/46.

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