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22. When the fumigation or disinfection of any ship or
    of its cargo is carried out by the owners or agents of such
    ship or their employees, the work shall be supervised by
    an officer of the Department of Health or other authorized
    person, and shall be performed to the satisfaction of such
    officer or authorized person.

23. With regard to any order under section 128 of the
    said Act requiring a vessel to be cleansed, fumigated, or dis-
    infected the following shall apply :—
    (1.) The order shall be in accordance with the form
    numbered (11) in the First Schedule hereto.
    (2.) Any such order may require the disinfection of the
    bilges or of the water-supply of the ship in any
    manner specified in such order.

24. The Port Health Officer or the Medical Officer of
    Health may cause any person on board a ship who is dis-
    covered to be verminous, and the clothing and other articles
    belonging to any such person, to be cleansed and disinfected ;
    and such person may be temporarily prohibited from leaving
    the ship except upon such conditions as may be specified
    by the Port Health Officer or Medical Officer of Health.

MISCELLANEOUS.

25. Bills of health may be issued if required to ships
    leaving New Zealand ports, and in respect thereto the follow-
    ing provisions shall apply :—
    (a.) An outward bill of health in respect of any New Zealand
    port and its vicinity shall, on application by the
    master or owner of the ship, be issued by a Port
    Health Officer or Medical Officer of Health. There
    shall be payable in respect of such bill of health,
    except in the case of a vessel of war, a fee of 10s.
    (b.) The bill of health shall be in the form numbered (12)
    in the First Schedule hereto.

26. The master of any ship on board of which a death
    occurs among the passengers or the crew while the ship is
    in New Zealand waters shall immediately notify the Port
    Health Officer of the port in which the ship is lying (or, if
    she is at sea, of the port next called at) of such occurrence.
    The name of the deceased and the cause and date of death
    shall be stated.

27. With regard to the disinfection of mails the following
    provisions shall apply :—
    (a.) Ordinary mail packages which have been stored in
    rat-proof mail-rooms on board any ship liable to
    quarantine shall be exempt from any special measure
    of disinfection, unless the Port Health Officer or
    Medical Officer of Health, after due investigation,
    is of the opinion that they have been in contact
    with any infected person or infected goods, or are
    from any other cause liable to convey infection,
    when they shall be disinfected by surface disin-
    fection.
    (b.) Any ordinary mail packages on board a ship ordered
    into quarantine shall be disinfected by surface
    disinfection unless the Port Health Officer or
    Medical Officer of Health is satisfied, after due
    investigation, that they have not been in contact
    with any infected person or infected goods.

28. In all matters relative to the medical inspection of
    ships and persons, and to disinfection, fumigation, and
    quarantine generally, a Port Health Officer shall be subject
    to and shall obey the instructions of the Medical Officer of
    Health for the district.

29. For the purpose of these regulations “ wharf ” includes
    any pier, stage, landing-place, or similar structure, fore-
    shore, or place at which a vessel may lie.

PENALTIES.

30. Except in cases where a penalty is specially provided
    for in the said Act, the penalty for a breach of any of these
    regulations shall be a fine of £50.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Form (1).

REPORT OF MASTER OF SHIP FROM BEYOND THE SEAS.
Under Section 107, Health Act, 1920.

Port of arrival :
Owner or agent at port of arrival :
Name of ship :
Registered tonnage : . Nationality :
Number of passengers on board :—

Number of crew on board :—

Original port of departure : . Date of departure :
Places at which ship touched during voyage :—

Did there exist any cases of cholera, plague, small-pox, yellow
fever, or typhus at the port of departure or at any of the
ports touched during the voyage ?
Has there been any communication with other ships during
the voyage otherwise than orally or by signal ?
Was there to your knowledge any infectious disease on any
such ship ?

State in the following form particulars of any deaths occurring
during voyage :—

State particulars of any disease occurring during voyage :
If disease was infectious, what precautions were taken to
prevent its spread ?
Are you aware of the presence on board of any person suffering
from—
(a.) Consumption ?
(b.) Venereal disease ?
(c.) Mental deficiency or insanity ?
(d.) Epilepsy ?
(e.) Bodily infirmity—e.g., blindness, loss of limb ?
(f.) Any defect whereby he is likely to become a charge
upon the Dominion ?
(g.) Any other disease, infectious or otherwise ?
If so, give names and particulars :
At what port or ports was fresh water taken on board ?
Is there now or has there been during the voyage any unusual
number of rats or mice on board ?
Have any dead or apparently sick rats or mice been found on
board during the voyage ?

I declare that the above particulars and answers with
respect to deaths and disease on board are true and correct.
(Signed) . . . . . . . . . . . .
Surgeon.

I declare that the above answers are true, and that I have
not withheld any information bearing on the above subjects
(Signed) . . . . . . . . . . . .
Master.

Date : , 192 .
(To be retained by Port Health Officer.)

Form (2).

CERTIFICATE OF PRATIQUE.
Under Section 110 of the Health Act, 1920.

Port of .
I HEREBY certify that the steam [sailing] ship “ ,”
Master, has this day been duly granted pratique.
Given under my hand, at a.m. [p.m.], this
day of , 192 .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Port Health Officer.

NOTE.—This certificate shall cease to have effect if for any
reason the ship again becomes liable to quarantine while in
New Zealand waters.