118. 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 soever, before such vessel has been duly visited by the Health Officer.

119. 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 may authorise the hauling down of the yellow flag, and the removal of the vessel to the ordinary mooring ground.

120. 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.

121. 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.

122. 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.

123. 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.

124. 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.

125. No person shall knowingly receive any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, package, baggage, books, or letters, or any other article whatever, from any vessel in quarantine or from any lazaret in which persons are performing quarantine.

126. No person without the authority of the Board of Health shall go within the limits of the quarantine station, when any vessel shall be then at anchor performing quarantine, or within the limits of any lazaret while the same is occupied by persons 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 himself 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 provisions of these regulations, quit any vessel in quarantine 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, it 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 members 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 regulations as the nature of the case may demand, and the master or commander shall carry such regulations into effect.

NOTE.—Any person offending against the provisions of any of these Regulations, for the breach of which 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 or 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 when did it prevail? How many persons were affected by it; and have any of them died in the course of the voyage?

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9. What number of officers, mariners, and passengers have you on board?

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10. What was the whole number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed?

Answer.