QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - CHAPTER 141C QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - LONG TITLE Empowering section (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - LONG TITLE Empowering section VerDate:30/06/1997 (Cap 141 section 8) [28 June 1939] (G.N. 522 of 1939) QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 1 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 1 VerDate:30/06/1997 These regulations may be cited as the Quarantine (Measures on Departure) Regulations. QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2 VerDate:30/06/1997 Whenever plague, cholera or yellow fever exists in Hong Kong, it shall be lawful for the Director of Health 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 Director of Health by a subsequent notification in the Gazette. (L.N. 82 of 1994) QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3 VerDate:30/06/1997 Before the departure from Hong Kong of all vessels and aircraft, except such vessels or aircraft as the Director of Health may specifically exempt- (L.N. 76 of 1989; L.N. 82 of 1994) (a) the vessel or aircraft, especially the parts liable to contamination shall be thoroughly cleansed; (b) the passengers and the crew shall be inspected by a health officer and shall produce such evidence of recent vaccination against any disease as such officer may require; (L.N. 82 of 1994) (c) 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on board may require the vessel or aircraft to be deratised, if the restrictions are imposed on account of plague; (f) (Repealed L.N. 82 of 1994) QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4 VerDate:30/06/1997 The provisions of regulation 3 may be applied in whole or in part, mutatis mutandis, to every means of transportation whereby persons depart from Hong Kong and the provisions of paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of regulation 3 may be likewise applied to passengers on foot out of Hong Kong. (G.N. 69 of 1946; L.N. 82 of 1994) QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5 VerDate:30/06/1997 Whenever it appears expedient to the Director of Health, in order to give effect to the provisions of the International Health Regulations 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. (G.N. 69 of 1946; L.N. 82 of 1994) QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6 (Repealed 14 of 2008 s. 16) VerDate:14/07/2008 QUARANTINE (MEASURES ON DEPARTURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6 VerDate:30/06/1997 (1) A port health officer may, at the request of the master of a vessel and upon payment of the fee prescribed under the Ordinance, issue a bill of health certifying that the master's ship departs Hong Kong under favourable sanitary conditions and setting out the number of reported cases and deaths in the previous week in Hong Kong due to plague, cholera and yellow fever. (L.N. 82 of 1994) (2) A bill of health shall be in such form as the Director may, from time to time, approve. (L.N. 171 of 1980)