MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1879, AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1883
Title
MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1879, AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1883
Description
Merchant Shipping Consolidation.
No. 9 of 1883.
An Ordinance entitled The Merchant Shipping Consoliclation
Ordinance, 1879, Amendment Ordinance, 1883.
[20th July, 1883.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, , with the advice of the
Lealslatlve Coyncll thereof, as follows:--
Sce: 25 of, .:-- ~ 1. Ordinance 8 of 1879 is hereby amended by striking
out. the words.
ordinance & : r
of section 25 and substituting in place thereof the words :
' The Governor in Council may from time t0 time make,
Council may
make qnttran- ' and when made, revoke, add to, or alter such regulations
as.
tine ~~canh. ' 111E Gov'er11o1'~in CO1111C11 may deem necessary for
maintaining
t,iUOS 'and enforcing an effectual quarantine in the ports and waters.
' of the Colony, and for the setting. apart of suitable places in
' available situations for quarantine stations, and providing for
' the detention and seclusion in such places of persons arriving -
on on board vessels subjecte& to quarantine.'
ORDINANCE No. 9 eF 1888.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation,
' Any person offending against any such regulations shall
`` be liable on smnmary conviction before a Police Magistrate
`` to a, penaltv not exceeding $2,000, or to ii-riprisonment with
' or without hard favour for any term got exceeding 12 months,
' or at the discretion of the Police Mzbistrate to both penaltX
`` and imTrrisanrnent, and the Captain Superintendent of Police,
' and -any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of en-
`~ forcinn quarantine, shall bane the came powers to prevent
' the commission of breaches of such regulatiens and to arrest,
`` recapture, or detain offenders against them as may be used
' by any person fur the prevention of any felony, or the a, rest,
' recapture, or detention of a felon.'
A
2. Ordinance 16 of 1 882 is hereby repealed, provided that such
repeal shall not affect the past operation^of the said Ordinance, or azny-
thing done or suffered tlzerennder, or any liability or punishment in
inspect thereof.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under flee provisions of
section
1 of Ordinance 9 of 1883, the 30th day of JOJ, 1886.
Gazette 31st July, 1886. n
Penalty for
breach of
quarantine
regulations ;
and pow, ers of
Police to
arrest:, &c.
Repeal.
1. All previous regulations made ardor the provisions of section I of
Ordinance 9 of
I $83 are hereby revoked.
2. In these regulations the term Health Officer means the Health Officer
of the port
in any other medical officer duly aisthonized to act for, or assist him;
the term Vessels
includes steamers, sailing vessels, junks, and lorchas, and British and
Foreign ships of.
War, as well as merchant vessels of all kinds; the term port or,
place'cnt which any in-
jectious or contagious disease prevailed moans a port or place
proclaimed to be such by
order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette from the date
of such procla-
wuxtion.
3. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony
(a.) After a voyage of -less than 3 days from any port or place at which
any
infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's
departure therefrom; or I
(L.) Having at the time of arrival, or having had, during the voyage, any
ease
of any infectious or contagious disease on board; or
(c.) Having on board any passengers who are less than 3 days from any port
or place where any infectious or enntagious disease prevailed when sucli
passengers departed therefrom, -
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Merchant Shipping Consolidatioh.'
s-1 imm -ing the waters of tile Coloii
hat ediately on entei y fly the quarantine flag, and shall
keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until
released therefrom by
express written order of the health Officer, who shall, in every case,
board and examine
<L11 the passengers duel crew of~ such vessel.
The quarantine flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter ~ in
International Coda
of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.
1~To such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 a.at. or
after r r.aT. '
4. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the quarantine anchorage,
and shall
not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from
quarantine by
order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the quarantine
anchorage from
stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and
such vessel
shall return to the quarantine anchorage immediately such stress of
weather has subsided.
Provided that in case of stress -of weather involving probable actual
danger to the vessel,
the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for
all purposes to be
ire quarantine, and subject try all other regulations applicable to such
vessels.
f
5. The quarantine anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and
the
master of every vessel shall remove lids vessel to any part of the
quarantine anchorage 89
and when required by the Harbour Master:-
' Western Bour.darJ.--A lice drawn from the` west side of Stone Cutters'
Island to.-
west side of Green Island (on A.clmiralty Chart marked As harbour
boundary).
Southern Boundary.--That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at
Kaulung~
bearing E, by S., x commencing where it iizeets the eastern boundary, and
terrninating
vvherQ it meets the western boundary. r
Eastern Boundary.--A south line drawn from a white mark on south side of
Stony
Cotters' Island until it, reaches'the southern boundary.
Northern Boundary.-Five fathom line of soundings.
The place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a
Lazaretto,.
vtlmely,
:--
T4at part of the northern shore' of Stone Cutters' Island which is
bounded and
;contained by a line of yellow posts. T
~,. The mas-ter or other person having the control of any vessel in
quarantine shall
give the Health Officer or boarding officer such information about the
vessel and the
voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the
Health Officer or
board' officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all
questions put to him by
the Health Officer or boarding ofji6er.
`'~;~ The kealth Officer may order tineremoval of such persons as he
thinks fit from
any vessel in', quaraiitine to the Lazaretto, and the master of any
vessel , from which such
persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according':
to the orders of
the Health Officer.
$, No vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by
the express
written order of the Health Officer, nor until such precautions; by way
of burning clothing,.
or fu iniaatiiig, or othervvise; as may, be°ordered by the Health
Officer, ,have been carried
out.
OI::DINA.\'CE No. 9. cry 1983.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation.
If the vessel arrives from a port or place where cholera or choleraic
diarrhoea
prevailed at the time of its departure, or if them has been any, case of
any snob disease
on board the vessel, or any -death therefrom, the vessel shall not be
released from
quarantine until 3 clear clays have elapsed since the date of the
vessel's departure from
arch port or place, or since any person was suffering from or died froze
any such disease
oz Aboard such vessel, as the case may be.
9. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case
of zt,uy
infectious or conta'iaua disease 'on board, or is a vessel which in the
opinion of the
Health Officer ought aecorcling to these regulations to be in quarantine,
the Health Officer
stay order such vessel iota quarantine, and the master or person in
Charge of such vessel
shall thereupon hoist. the quarantine flag upozt such vessel and remove
the vessel to the
quarantine anchorage, and all the regulations applicable in relation to
vessels in quarantine
shall apply to such vessel.
10. In case of a death happening on board guy vessel in -qlzitraittizlo,
or ordered into
quarantine, or in the Lazaretto, the body shall be disposed of ?n such ma
zuzer as may be
ordered by the Health Officer; and the master of the vessel shall carry
out such orders'
its the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the
body.
11. When any quarantined vCSsel.~1S in the waters of the Colony no person
shad
leave the vessel, or hold cotziznunication from the vessel with the
shore, or with any other
vessel or coat, or take or send guy person or thing whatever out of the
vessel, until the
express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to
the master
or other person having the cozztrul of the vessel, and such precautions
as the Health
Officer may require have been observed.
12. When trey vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the health
Officer or
persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or
hold any eommuni-'
cation with such vessel, or with any person on hoard o£ it, or receive or
take guy person
or thing Vvhatevel directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any
person on board of
it, without having first received the express written permission of the
Health Officer,
scud observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
13. No person placed in the Lazaretto shall leave the same, -or hold
,-comznunication
with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing w4atever out
of the Laz-
aretto without having first received the express written permission of
the Health Officer,
and observing such precautions as the Health OTcer may require.
14. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed
by him,
shall enter the Lazaretto or apprcf'aeh within 30 yards of the boundaries
thereof, or hold
communication with the Lazaretto or with any person in it, or receive or
take anything
whatever directly or indirectly from the Lazaretto Qr froaz any, person
in it without
having first received the express written permission of the Health
Officer, and observing
such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
15. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may
appoint for
the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may, order any person leaving or
coming froze any
vessel that is in quarantine or from the - Lazaretto, or taking or
sending any person or
Ordinance No. 9 of 1883.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation.
thing Vhatever from any f such vessel or Lazaretto to remain in or return
to, and to
return such pe~sons or things to such vessel or Lazaretto, and may by
such necessary
force as the case requires'compal any person neglecting or refusing to
observe such order
to obey the same. -
16. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the
internal manage-
rnent of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with
their freedomto
proceed to sea, whenever the officer in command may deem such course
requisite.
17. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all
the persons
assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or
other person
having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which. such breach
has been com-
mitted, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such
breach shall be
severally answerable far such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the,
same.
NOTE.-The following for superseded, repealed or revoked regulations were
made under the
Ordinance:'
Regulations under section.25 of Ord. No. 8 of 187 us amended by Ord. No.
9 of
' 1883, of the 20th July, 1885. (See Gazette 21st, of same month.)
.1.iegzclgtions under sec. 1 of OrdznanceNo. 9 of 1883 of the 14th
Sept., 1883,
(See Gazette 15;h of the.8ame month!)
Regulations under sec. 1 of the same OrWnance of the 6th Attgztst, 1884.
` (See Gazette of same date)
Regulations under sec. 1 of the same Ordinance of the 23rd June, 1885.
(See Gazette 2 7th of the same month.)
Regulations under sec, 1 of the same Ordinance of 03rd March, 1886. (See
Gazette 6th of the same month.)
1748
Sec. 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 amended.
Governor in Council may make quarantine regulations.
1749
Penalty for breach of quarantine regulations; and power of Police to arrest, &c.
Repeal.
No. 9 of 1883.
An Ordinance entitled The Merchant Shipping Consoliclation
Ordinance, 1879, Amendment Ordinance, 1883.
[20th July, 1883.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, , with the advice of the
Lealslatlve Coyncll thereof, as follows:--
Sce: 25 of, .:-- ~ 1. Ordinance 8 of 1879 is hereby amended by striking
out. the words.
ordinance & : r
of section 25 and substituting in place thereof the words :
' The Governor in Council may from time t0 time make,
Council may
make qnttran- ' and when made, revoke, add to, or alter such regulations
as.
tine ~~canh. ' 111E Gov'er11o1'~in CO1111C11 may deem necessary for
maintaining
t,iUOS 'and enforcing an effectual quarantine in the ports and waters.
' of the Colony, and for the setting. apart of suitable places in
' available situations for quarantine stations, and providing for
' the detention and seclusion in such places of persons arriving -
on on board vessels subjecte& to quarantine.'
ORDINANCE No. 9 eF 1888.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation,
' Any person offending against any such regulations shall
`` be liable on smnmary conviction before a Police Magistrate
`` to a, penaltv not exceeding $2,000, or to ii-riprisonment with
' or without hard favour for any term got exceeding 12 months,
' or at the discretion of the Police Mzbistrate to both penaltX
`` and imTrrisanrnent, and the Captain Superintendent of Police,
' and -any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of en-
`~ forcinn quarantine, shall bane the came powers to prevent
' the commission of breaches of such regulatiens and to arrest,
`` recapture, or detain offenders against them as may be used
' by any person fur the prevention of any felony, or the a, rest,
' recapture, or detention of a felon.'
A
2. Ordinance 16 of 1 882 is hereby repealed, provided that such
repeal shall not affect the past operation^of the said Ordinance, or azny-
thing done or suffered tlzerennder, or any liability or punishment in
inspect thereof.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under flee provisions of
section
1 of Ordinance 9 of 1883, the 30th day of JOJ, 1886.
Gazette 31st July, 1886. n
Penalty for
breach of
quarantine
regulations ;
and pow, ers of
Police to
arrest:, &c.
Repeal.
1. All previous regulations made ardor the provisions of section I of
Ordinance 9 of
I $83 are hereby revoked.
2. In these regulations the term Health Officer means the Health Officer
of the port
in any other medical officer duly aisthonized to act for, or assist him;
the term Vessels
includes steamers, sailing vessels, junks, and lorchas, and British and
Foreign ships of.
War, as well as merchant vessels of all kinds; the term port or,
place'cnt which any in-
jectious or contagious disease prevailed moans a port or place
proclaimed to be such by
order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette from the date
of such procla-
wuxtion.
3. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony
(a.) After a voyage of -less than 3 days from any port or place at which
any
infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's
departure therefrom; or I
(L.) Having at the time of arrival, or having had, during the voyage, any
ease
of any infectious or contagious disease on board; or
(c.) Having on board any passengers who are less than 3 days from any port
or place where any infectious or enntagious disease prevailed when sucli
passengers departed therefrom, -
U IiDIN ATYC E.r'0*. .9 `. 04 : 1BS3=.'
Merchant Shipping Consolidatioh.'
s-1 imm -ing the waters of tile Coloii
hat ediately on entei y fly the quarantine flag, and shall
keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until
released therefrom by
express written order of the health Officer, who shall, in every case,
board and examine
<L11 the passengers duel crew of~ such vessel.
The quarantine flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter ~ in
International Coda
of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.
1~To such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 a.at. or
after r r.aT. '
4. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the quarantine anchorage,
and shall
not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from
quarantine by
order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the quarantine
anchorage from
stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and
such vessel
shall return to the quarantine anchorage immediately such stress of
weather has subsided.
Provided that in case of stress -of weather involving probable actual
danger to the vessel,
the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for
all purposes to be
ire quarantine, and subject try all other regulations applicable to such
vessels.
f
5. The quarantine anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and
the
master of every vessel shall remove lids vessel to any part of the
quarantine anchorage 89
and when required by the Harbour Master:-
' Western Bour.darJ.--A lice drawn from the` west side of Stone Cutters'
Island to.-
west side of Green Island (on A.clmiralty Chart marked As harbour
boundary).
Southern Boundary.--That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at
Kaulung~
bearing E, by S., x commencing where it iizeets the eastern boundary, and
terrninating
vvherQ it meets the western boundary. r
Eastern Boundary.--A south line drawn from a white mark on south side of
Stony
Cotters' Island until it, reaches'the southern boundary.
Northern Boundary.-Five fathom line of soundings.
The place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a
Lazaretto,.
vtlmely,
:--
T4at part of the northern shore' of Stone Cutters' Island which is
bounded and
;contained by a line of yellow posts. T
~,. The mas-ter or other person having the control of any vessel in
quarantine shall
give the Health Officer or boarding officer such information about the
vessel and the
voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the
Health Officer or
board' officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all
questions put to him by
the Health Officer or boarding ofji6er.
`'~;~ The kealth Officer may order tineremoval of such persons as he
thinks fit from
any vessel in', quaraiitine to the Lazaretto, and the master of any
vessel , from which such
persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according':
to the orders of
the Health Officer.
$, No vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by
the express
written order of the Health Officer, nor until such precautions; by way
of burning clothing,.
or fu iniaatiiig, or othervvise; as may, be°ordered by the Health
Officer, ,have been carried
out.
OI::DINA.\'CE No. 9. cry 1983.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation.
If the vessel arrives from a port or place where cholera or choleraic
diarrhoea
prevailed at the time of its departure, or if them has been any, case of
any snob disease
on board the vessel, or any -death therefrom, the vessel shall not be
released from
quarantine until 3 clear clays have elapsed since the date of the
vessel's departure from
arch port or place, or since any person was suffering from or died froze
any such disease
oz Aboard such vessel, as the case may be.
9. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case
of zt,uy
infectious or conta'iaua disease 'on board, or is a vessel which in the
opinion of the
Health Officer ought aecorcling to these regulations to be in quarantine,
the Health Officer
stay order such vessel iota quarantine, and the master or person in
Charge of such vessel
shall thereupon hoist. the quarantine flag upozt such vessel and remove
the vessel to the
quarantine anchorage, and all the regulations applicable in relation to
vessels in quarantine
shall apply to such vessel.
10. In case of a death happening on board guy vessel in -qlzitraittizlo,
or ordered into
quarantine, or in the Lazaretto, the body shall be disposed of ?n such ma
zuzer as may be
ordered by the Health Officer; and the master of the vessel shall carry
out such orders'
its the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the
body.
11. When any quarantined vCSsel.~1S in the waters of the Colony no person
shad
leave the vessel, or hold cotziznunication from the vessel with the
shore, or with any other
vessel or coat, or take or send guy person or thing whatever out of the
vessel, until the
express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to
the master
or other person having the cozztrul of the vessel, and such precautions
as the Health
Officer may require have been observed.
12. When trey vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the health
Officer or
persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or
hold any eommuni-'
cation with such vessel, or with any person on hoard o£ it, or receive or
take guy person
or thing Vvhatevel directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any
person on board of
it, without having first received the express written permission of the
Health Officer,
scud observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
13. No person placed in the Lazaretto shall leave the same, -or hold
,-comznunication
with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing w4atever out
of the Laz-
aretto without having first received the express written permission of
the Health Officer,
and observing such precautions as the Health OTcer may require.
14. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed
by him,
shall enter the Lazaretto or apprcf'aeh within 30 yards of the boundaries
thereof, or hold
communication with the Lazaretto or with any person in it, or receive or
take anything
whatever directly or indirectly from the Lazaretto Qr froaz any, person
in it without
having first received the express written permission of the Health
Officer, and observing
such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
15. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may
appoint for
the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may, order any person leaving or
coming froze any
vessel that is in quarantine or from the - Lazaretto, or taking or
sending any person or
Ordinance No. 9 of 1883.
Merchant Shipping Consolidation.
thing Vhatever from any f such vessel or Lazaretto to remain in or return
to, and to
return such pe~sons or things to such vessel or Lazaretto, and may by
such necessary
force as the case requires'compal any person neglecting or refusing to
observe such order
to obey the same. -
16. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the
internal manage-
rnent of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with
their freedomto
proceed to sea, whenever the officer in command may deem such course
requisite.
17. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all
the persons
assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or
other person
having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which. such breach
has been com-
mitted, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such
breach shall be
severally answerable far such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the,
same.
NOTE.-The following for superseded, repealed or revoked regulations were
made under the
Ordinance:'
Regulations under section.25 of Ord. No. 8 of 187 us amended by Ord. No.
9 of
' 1883, of the 20th July, 1885. (See Gazette 21st, of same month.)
.1.iegzclgtions under sec. 1 of OrdznanceNo. 9 of 1883 of the 14th
Sept., 1883,
(See Gazette 15;h of the.8ame month!)
Regulations under sec. 1 of the same OrWnance of the 6th Attgztst, 1884.
` (See Gazette of same date)
Regulations under sec. 1 of the same Ordinance of the 23rd June, 1885.
(See Gazette 2 7th of the same month.)
Regulations under sec, 1 of the same Ordinance of 03rd March, 1886. (See
Gazette 6th of the same month.)
1748
Sec. 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 amended.
Governor in Council may make quarantine regulations.
1749
Penalty for breach of quarantine regulations; and power of Police to arrest, &c.
Repeal.
Abstract
1748
Sec. 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 amended.
Governor in Council may make quarantine regulations.
1749
Penalty for breach of quarantine regulations; and power of Police to arrest, &c.
Repeal.
Sec. 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 amended.
Governor in Council may make quarantine regulations.
1749
Penalty for breach of quarantine regulations; and power of Police to arrest, &c.
Repeal.
Identifier
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Edition
1890
Volume
v3
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 9 of 1883
Number of Pages
5
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