QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 34, June 25, 1868.

THERE shall for every port be a Health Officer, who shall from time to time be appointed and be removable by the Superintendent.

There shall for every Port be a Board of Health, which shall consist of the Resident Magistrate of the Port, one or more Justices of the Peace, to be appointed by the Superintendent, the principal Officer of Customs at the Port, the Health Officer at the Port, and, if the Health Officer be not a medical practitioner, one or more legally qualified medical practitioners, to be appointed by the Superintendent. The Resident Magistrate shall be Chairman of the Board.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the Board of Health, to appoint any station or place within any port or harbour for the performance of quarantine; and the crews, passengers, and other persons on board thereof shall perform the same, and also, if necessary, to appoint lazarets and other places where the crews, passengers, and other persons, and the goods, wares, and merchandise which shall or may be on board the said vessels shall and may be detained, landed, and kept for the performance of quarantine. Provided that any quarantine ground or lazaret, heretofore legally appointed by the Governor or by any Superintendent, shall be deemed to have been appointed under these regulations.

The master of any vessel arriving from any port in the Australian Colonies or New Zealand which may at any time, by a notice in the New Zealand Gazette, be duly declared an infected port, and the master of every vessel arriving from any port whatsoever not within the Australian Colonies or New Zealand shall, on approaching any port in New Zealand, cause the Health Officer’s flag (No 8 of Marryat’s code), to be hoisted at the mast or mainmast head of the said vessel, and shall keep the same flying until she has been communicated with by the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer of the Port, after which, if the vessel be considered clean, the said flag may be hauled down. If any such vessel shall call at more than one New Zealand port the flag herein prescribed shall be hoisted on arrival at each port.

Should it be considered necessary by the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer as aforesaid, that the vessel shall be visited by the Health Officer, the master shall, on being directed so to do, cause the vessel to be anchored in the quarantine ground appointed for that harbour, and shall hoist the quarantine (or yellow) flag as hereinafter appointed.

The master of every vessel so anchored is to deliver to the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other person duly authorised by the Superintendent to receive the same, his bill of health, manifest, log book, and journal, and he is to fill up a report in the form and manner pointed out in the schedule annexed.

No person shall go on board any vessel whilst the yellow quarantine flag is flying, and before she has been visited by the Health Officer; and if any person shall offend against this regulation he shall, in addition to other penalties which he may thereby incur, be liable to be compelled to remain on board or in the lazaret until the vessel or her passengers and crew be duly admitted to pratique, should they be thereafter placed in quarantine; and no person shall assist any one on board to leave such vessel or in any way assist to remove any goods, packages, or baggage, or any of them, before such vessel has been duly visited by the Health Officer.

The Health Officer shall immediately visit any vessel which has hoisted the yellow flag, and has been brought up in the quarantine ground, and if he shall find that any sickness of an infectious or contagious nature exists, or shall then recently have existed on board of her, he shall declare the vessel to be in quarantine, and shall submit full information in regard thereto, to the Board of Health. But should he be satisfied that the sickness is not of a contagious nature he shall authorise the hauling down of the yellow flag, and the removal of the vessel to the ordinary mooring ground.

The master of every vessel in quarantine is to hoist at the main a yellow flag of not less than six breadths of bunting by day, and a white light by night in an ordinary globe lantern not less than eight inches in diameter, and to keep the same respectively hoisted until released from quarantine. The said lantern at the main to be in addition to the usual anchor light provided for in the preceding regulations.

The master of every vessel in quarantine shall not either himself quit, or permit any seaman, passenger, or other person to quit the same until duly admitted to pratique, except by special authority from the Board of Health.

No seaman, passenger, or other person shall quit any vessel in quarantine, or any lazaret to which he may have been removed from a vessel in quarantine, until admitted to pratique.

No master of any vessel in quarantine shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, package, baggage, books, letters, or other articles, to be unshipped or landed from such vessel.

No person shall remove, or aid and assist in removing from any vessel in quarantine, or from any lazaret in which any persons are performing quarantine, any goods, wares, merchandise, packets, packages, baggage, books, letters, or other articles, or any of them.

No person shall knowingly receive any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, package,