Section 82

If such nuisance is not abated within such time, the master, agent or owner shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $100 and a further fine of $40 for every day of continuing default.

If the port health officer on inspection of any ship within port limits finds any crew’s quarters, living spaces, water tanks, food-lockers, paint-lockers, decks, lavatories, latrines, or bilges to be in a dirty or insanitary state, he may call upon the master of such ship to carry out to his satisfaction such cleansing, disinfection, whitewashing or painting as he directs according to Form II in the Seventh Schedule.

Any master who neglects to comply with such orders within such time as the port health officer directs shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $100 and a further fine of

$40 for every day of continuing default, and the person whose duty it is to grant a port clearance may, on the certificate of the

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port health officer, withhold a port clearance from such ship, until the health officer’s directions have been complied with.

At the discretion of the port health officer any offensive articles mentioned in this section may be discharged, and the vessel may, at the owner’s or agents’ expense, be disinfected under the supervision of the port health officer.

Any article conveyed from any ship or hulk in quarantine or from any place within a quarantine anchorage or quarantine station, to any place outside such ship, hulk, anchorage, or station shall, before being forwarded to its destination, be disinfected, disinsectised or deratted, if the port health officer so directs.

The port health officer may require any person liable to be quarantined, to be disinfected, together with his clothing and baggage, before being released.

All expenses incurred by the port health officer in carrying out this section shall be recoverable from the owner or agents of the vessel on the certificate of the port health officer.

Examination of persons entering otherwise than by sea from any place where a dangerous infectious disease is declared to exist.