Hong Kong Regulations

PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES REGULATIONS - REGULATION 14

Person not to expose others to infection or enter public conveyances

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

PART IV

RESTRICTIONS ON EXPOSURE OR TRANSPORT OF SICK PERSONS AND OF DISPOSAL OF
INFECTED DEAD BODIES

(1) No person knowing he is a sick person shall, and no person having the care
of any person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person shall permit that
person to-

   (a)  expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or
        conduct in any street, public place, place of entertainment or
        assembly, club, or hotel, or by carrying on any trade, business or
        occupation;

   (b)  enter any public conveyance used for the carriage of passengers at
        separate fares except with the permission in writing of a health
        officer and subject to such conditions as he may specify;

   (c)  enter any other kind of public conveyance without first informing the
        owner, driver, or conductor of the fact that he is a person so
        suffering.

(2) No person knowing he is suffering from plague or cholera shall travel in
any conveyance other than an ambulance except with the permission in writing
of a health officer and subject to such conditions as he may specify. (L.N. 81
of 1994)

(3) Except as herein provided no owner or conductor of a public conveyance
used for the carriage of passengers at separate fares shall convey therein any
person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person.