QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS

QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE)
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 141, section 8)

[28 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 or typhus exists in the Colony, it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette from time
to time to declare that the provisions of regulation 3 shall have
effect, and shall continue in force until suspended by the Governor
in Council by a subsequent notification in the Gazette.

3. Before the departure from the Colony of all vessels and
aircraft, except such vessels or aircraft as the Director of Medical
and Health Services may specifically exempt-

(a)the vessel or aircraft, especially the parts liable to con-
tamination shall be thoroughly cleansed;

(b)the passengers and the crew shall be inspected by a health
officer and shall produce such evidence of recent vaccina-
tion against smallpox or inoculation against cholera or
other disease as such officer may require;

(e)any person showing signs of one of the diseases named in
regulation 2 and all persons in such close relation to a
person known to be infected as to render them liable to
transmit the infection of such disease, shall leave the vessel
or aircraft at the request of any health officer;

(d)personal effects which are not reasonably clean shall be
removed from the vessel or aircraft at the request of any
health officer;

(e)any health officer who has reason to suspect the presence
of rats on board may require the vessel or aircraft to be
deratised, if the restrictions are imposed on account 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, he considers likely
to convey infection to be disinsectised.

4. The provisions of regulation 3 may be applied in whole
or in part, mutatis mutandis, to every means of transportation
whereby persons depart from the Colony and the provisions of
paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (f) of regulation 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 to 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 pro-
visions 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.

6. (1) A port health officer may, at the request of the master
of a vessel and upon payment of the fee prescribed under the Ordin-
ance, issue a bill of health certifying that the master's ship departs
Hong Kong under favourable sanitary conditions and setting out the
number oCreported cases and deaths in the previous week in the
Colony due to plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus, yellow fever and
relapsing fever.

(2) A bill of health shall be in such form as the Director may,
from tirne to time, approve.
G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46. L.N. 171/80. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. L.N. 171/80.

G.N. 522/39. G.N. 69/46. L.N. 171/80. G.N. 69/46. G.N. 69/46. L.N. 171/80.

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