✨ Quarantine Regulations
May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1677
THE SAMOA QUARANTINE ORDER, 1920.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this first day of April, 1920.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of Western Samoa, conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby order as follows:—
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This Order may be cited as the Samoa Quarantine Order, 1920, and shall come into operation on the same day as the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.
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In this Order—
“Infectious disease” means typhus fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, measles, German measles, mumps, whooping-cough, small-pox, diphtheria, plague, influenza, acute primary pneumonia, cerebro-spinal fever, infantile paralysis, and any other disease which the Administrator by notice in the Western Samoa Gazette declares to be an infectious disease within the meaning of this Order:
“Ship” means a ship, boat, or other vessel of any kind used in navigation:
“Master” includes any person actually in charge or command of a ship.
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This Order shall extend and apply to ships of the Crown and to all persons in the service of the Crown.
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Until and unless a clearance has been granted by a Medical Officer under this Order every ship arriving in Samoa from any place beyond the seas, and every ship arriving in Samoa and having on board any person who has come from any place beyond the seas, shall be deemed to be in quarantine at all times while within any port, harbour, or other territorial waters of Samoa, or within three miles of the coast of Samoa.
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If and so long as a ship is in quarantine it shall not be lawful, save in the case of urgent necessity due to a marine casualty or other like emergency, or save with the written authority of the Administrator,—
(a.) For the master, pilot, or other officer in charge of the navigation of that ship to bring or allow her to be brought to any wharf or other landing-place, or within three hundred yards thereof:
(b.) For any person, other than a Medical Officer and his assistants, or a pilot, to go on board that ship:
(c.) For any person other than a Medical Officer and his assistants to leave that ship:
(d.) For any goods, mails, or other articles whatever to be landed or transhipped from that ship:
(e.) For any boat, launch, or other vessel, other than one in the service of the Samoan Administration, to be brought within fifty yards of that ship.
- A Medical Officer shall, before granting a clearance to any ship under this Order, board that ship and there inspect every person on board, so far as may be necessary for the purpose of ascertaining the existence on that ship of any infectious disease, and it
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1920, No 51
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1920, No 51
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🌏 External Affairs & Territories1 April 1920
Quarantine, Samoa, Legislation, Order in Council, Health, Shipping
- LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
- THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL