May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1679

(3.) Any person who obstructs a Medical Officer in carrying out any such measures of disinfection or preventive treatment shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

13. (1.) Notwithstanding anything in this Order the Administrator may, in any case in which he thinks such a course advisable for the protection of the public health, give a written instruction to the Chief Medical Officer that a clearance is not to be granted without the authority of the Administrator, and so long as any such instruction remains in force all Medical Officers shall act in accordance therewith.

(2.) Any such instruction may relate either to a specified ship, or to any class of ship, or to ships in general.

14. The Administrator may by notice published in the Western Samoa Gazette appoint as a quarantine station any suitable place in the possession of the Crown and so situated that the residence there of persons suffering from infectious disease will not be a source of public danger.

15. When a ship is in quarantine under this Order a Medical Officer may, with the approval of the Administrator, compulsorily remove from the ship to a quarantine station any person who in the opinion of the Medical Officer is suffering from an infectious disease or may have been so recently exposed to infection that he may suffer from an infectious disease in consequence.

16. (1.) When a ship arrives in Samoa in quarantine and has on board any person who in the opinion of a Medical Officer is suffering from or infected by any disease which, though not an infectious disease within the meaning of this Order, may nevertheless be a source of danger to the public health of Samoa, the Medical Officer may at any time, before or after granting a clearance to that ship, prohibit that person from leaving the ship.

(2.) If such person leaves the ship at any time while such prohibition remains in force, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

(3.) When any person has been so prohibited from leaving the ship the Medical Officer may, with the approval of the Administrator, compulsorily remove that person from the ship to a public hospital.

17. All persons removed under this Order to a quarantine station or hospital shall be detained there until a Medical Officer is satisfied that they may be discharged without risk to the public health of Samoa, and discharges them accordingly.

18. It shall be the duty of the Medical Officer in charge of a quarantine station or hospital to make due provision, at the cost of the Samoan Treasury, for the accommodation, feeding, care, inspection, control, and medical attendance of all persons so detained in that station or hospital.

19. Every person who is so detained in a quarantine station or hospital and leaves the same before he is discharged by a Medical Officer shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

20. Every person who enters a quarantine station without lawful authority while any person is detained there shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

21. Every person who escapes from custody while in process of transference from a ship to a quarantine station or hospital shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

22. Every person found unlawfully at large in breach of this Order may be arrested without warrant by an officer of police or, with the authority of a Medical Officer, by any other person, and may be taken in custody to the ship, quarantine station, or hospital in which he is liable to detention.

23. If and so long as the clearance of any ship is refused under this Order, a Medical Officer may prohibit the master of the ship from taking any action which, in the opinion of the Medical Officer, may be a source of danger to the public health of Samoa; and if anything so prohibited is done by the master or any other person on