Section 83

The medical examination shall be conducted at such place as the local authority approves.

All such persons suffering from or being a carrier of or suspected to be suffering from or being a carrier of a dangerous infectious disease shall be removed to hospital and be detained therein until discharged by the medical officer in charge.

Quarantine and Prevention of Disease 56

All such persons may be required on passing the frontier or boundary to enter into a written undertaking according to the Form in the Eighth Schedule to present them-selves for surveillance on arrival at their destination and may be required to deposit such sum of money not exceeding $50 as may be fixed by the health officer.

Any person who is unwilling to deposit such sum of money may be detained for observation and may be subjected to disinfection or disinsectisation of himself and his effects and to vaccination.

The period of observation or surveillance reckoned from the day of arrival shall not exceed —

in the case of cholera, 5 days, in the case of plague or yellow fever, 6 days, in the case of pneumonic plague, 7 days, in the case of typhus fever, 12 days, in the case of small-pox, 14 days.

The health officer may, at his discretion, order the disinfection or destruction of the clothes and personal effects of any person entering the district of any local authority from such local area, and the disinfection or disinsectisation and the vaccination of any such person.

The value of such clothes and personal effects as are destroyed shall be assessed by the health officer, and shall be paid out of the funds of the local authority as compensation to the owner thereof.

Any such person who —

Any person who, having been removed to a hospital or isolated under this section, escapes from the hospital or place where he is isolated, may be arrested without warrant by any person, and conveyed to and detained in the hospital or place of isolation, and shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of

$500.

Any such person refusing prophylactic vaccination against a dangerous infectious disease may be detained for observation, at such person’s expense, by the health officer for a period which shall not exceed the quarantine period for such dangerous infectious disease.

On arrival at its destination any carriage, vessel, or other craft or vehicle which has conveyed any person referred to in subsection (1) shall be disinfected or deratted, together with its contents, as the health officer may direct.

Duty to report.