✨ Quarantine Regulations Text




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

performing quarantine, and any person offending
against this regulation shall, in addition to any other
penalties to which he may be liable, be liable to be
detained and kept in quarantine as if he were him-
self subject to quarantine.
127. If any officer, or person entrusted with orders
respecting quarantine, shall in any way neglect his
duty, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against
these regulations.
128. If any person shall, contrary to the pro-
visions of these regulations, quit any vessel in quaran-
tine or any lazaret in which he may be performing
quarantine, or go within the limits of any quarantine
station or lazaret while the same is occupied by
persons performing quarantine, and thereafter quit
the same, it shall be lawful for any Peace Officer
or Constable to apprehend him and carry him
before a Justice of the Peace, who may, if he shall
think fit, grant his warrant for conveying such person
back to the vessel, quarantine station, or lazaret, which
he shall have left, there to remain in quarantine,
until admitted to pratique.
129. The Board of Health, or a majority of the mem-
bers thereof, shall have authority to detain any
such vessel as aforesaid in quarantine or the crew or
passengers thereof in lazaret until every symptom
of any infectious or contagious disease as aforesaid
shall have disappeared, and until sufficient time to
prevent the spread of such disease shall in the
opinion of the Board have elapsed since the last
case disappeared, and thereupon to release such
vessel, passengers or crew from quarantine and admit
the same to pratique.
130. The Board of Health shall have power to
prescribe all measures necessary for cleansing,
purifying, and disinfecting any vessel in quarantine,
and the passengers and crew thereof, and the goods,
wares, and merchandise therein, and, if necessary, to
order the destruction of any clothing or materials
which cannot be cleansed, purified, or disinfected.
131. During the detention of the crew or passengers
of any vessel in quarantine, whether on board or on
shore, the master of such vessel shall provide and
supply provisions for the said crew and passengers on
the same scale as during the voyage.
132. During the period any vessel may be in
quarantine, the Health Officer and one or more other
members of the Board of Health shall visit her
alongside from time to time, and institute such regu-
lations as the nature of the case may demand, and
the master or commander shall carry such regulations
into effect.
NOTE.β€”Any person offending against the provisions
of any of these Regulations for the breach of which

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no penalty is specifically provided is subject by "The
Marine Act, 1867," to a penalty not exceeding fifty
pounds.

Schedule.

  1. What is the tonnage of the vessel and her
    name?
    Answer.
  2. What is the master's name, and are you the
    master?
    Answer.
  3. From whence do you come, and when did you
    sail?
    Answer.
  4. At what ports have you touched on your
    passage?
    Answer.
  5. What vessels have you had intercourse or
    communication with on your passage, and from
    whence did they come?
    Answer.
  6. Have you any, and what, bills of health?
    Answer.
  7. Did the cholera or any other highly infectious
    and dangerous disease prevail at the place from
    which you have sailed, or at any of the places at
    which you have touched, or on board of any vessel
    with which you have had communication? If so
    state when and where?
    Answer.
  8. In the course of your voyage, have any persons
    on board suffered from sickness of any kind; what
    was the nature of such sickness; and when did it
    prevail. How many persons were affected by it;
    and have any of them died in the course of the
    voyage?
    Answer.
  9. What number of officers, mariners, and passen-
    gers have you on board?
    Answer.
  10. What was the whole number of persons on
    board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.
  11. What is the whole number of persons now ill
    on board your vessel?
    Answer.
  12. If there be no sickness now on board, when did
    the last attack of disease appear, and when did it
    entirely disappear?
    Answer.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.



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πŸ₯ Continuation of Quarantine Regulations and Schedule of Questions (continued from previous page)

πŸ₯ Health & Social Welfare
25 June 1868
Quarantine, vessel inspection, disease control, schedule, Marine Act, penalty
  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council