QUARANTINE (PLAGUE) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE (PLAGUE) REGULATIONS

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





(b)cargo for discharge from such vessel is loaded with
tile consent of a health officer into lighters and
thereon fumigated to the satisfaction of a health
officer before being landed.

4. Any person who discharges or attempts to discharge Penalty.
any cargo in contravention of regulation 3 shall be liable to
a fine of five hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 142.
(Ordinance No. 2 Of 1888).
BOOKS REGISTRATION.
No subsidiary legislation.
[r. 2 cont.] G.N. 68/46. G.N.A. 159/50. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 141.) Fumigation of cargo from infected port. Penalty.

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

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