QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON ARRIVAL) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON ARRIVAL) REGULATIONS

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-





ed valid. Regarding such certificates the Director
of Aledical and Health Services may prescribe,
among other things, the limits of validity, the
fixation of photographs, the stamping or 'chop-
ping- with the seal of a public health department
and the signature or countersignature by an official
medical officer.

3. Notwithstanding the absence of such a declaration,
the Governor in Council rnay by. notification in the Gazette
declare that all or any of the provisions of regulation 2 may
be applied to a particular class of or all persons arriving
from particular ports or places or to a particular class of
or all persons arriving in the Colony, irrespective of the
port or place from which they have come.

QUARANTINE (PLAGUE) REGULATIONS.

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

[21st July, 1950.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Quarantine
(Plague) Regulations.

2. 'health officer infected place', 'infected
port- and 'vessel' have the meanings respectively assigned
to them by the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease
Ordinance.

3. No vessel, entering the harbour within 48 hours of
leaving a place or port declared by the Governor to be an
infected place or port by reason of the prevalence there of
plague and having taken on board at such place or port.
feathers sacks or rags as merchandise, shall be permitted
to discharge cargo unless-
(a)the vessel has been fumigated to the satisfaction of
a health officer; or
G.N. 69/46. G.N. 621/39. G.N. 68/46. G.N. 68/46. [r. 2 cont.] G.N. 68/46. G.N.A. 159/50. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 141.) Fumigation of cargo from infected port.

G.N. 69/46. G.N. 621/39. G.N. 68/46. G.N. 68/46. [r. 2 cont.] G.N. 68/46. G.N.A. 159/50. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 141.) Fumigation of cargo from infected port.

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