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Gilbert and Ellice (Quarantine Amendment) Regulation 1913

UNITED KINGDOM

GILBERT AND ELLICE (QUARANTINE AMENDMENT) REGULATION, 1913
No. III. of 1913
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BICKHAM ESCOTT,

High Commissioner.

KING'S REGULATION

TO AMEND THE GILBERT AND ELLICE (QUARANTINE) REGULATION, 1909.

Made by His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific under the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893.

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In the name of His Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

Short title.

1. This Regulation may be cited as the Gilbert and Ellice (Quarantine Amendment) Regulation, 1913.

Repeal sections 6 and 7 of No. VI of 1909 and substitutes section therefor.

2. Sections six and seven of the Gilbert and Ellice (Quarantine) Regulation, 1909, are hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor:-

Vessels in quarantine.

"6. It shall be unlawful for any communication, otherwise

“than by signal, to be had between any vessel in quarantine

“and any island, vessel, or place within the Group, or for a

“vessel in quarantine to be brought within one hundred yards

“of any other vessel in any harbour at any place within the

“Group, or for any person (except as provided in this Regulation)

“to leave that vessel or to transmit any article therefrom,

“or for any person (except the health officer) to board a vessel

“arriving at any place within the waters of the Group until

“that vessel has been admitted to pratique.

Inquiry by health officer.

“7. The health officer shall not, admit a vessel to pratique until –

“(a) there has been produced to him a bill of health signed,

“if the vessel has arrived in the Protectorate from a

“foreign port, by the consular officer at that port,

“and if the vessel has arrived from the port of a British

“possession, by the health officer thereat; and

“(b) the questions set forth in the schedule hereto have been

“answered to his satisfaction by the person or persons

“able to answer the same.”

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Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this eighteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

By Command,

C. H. HART-DAVIS,

Secretary to His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner

for the Western Pacific.
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