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(2) If a person obstructs a health officer, a police officer, a member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or a member of the Civil Aid Service or a public officer appointed under this Ordinance who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Ordinance, or assists in any such obstruction, that officer or member may arrest that person without warrant.

(3) Where a health officer or a member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or a member of the Civil Aid Service or a public officer appointed under this Ordinance arrests a person under this section, the person who made the arrest shall deliver the person arrested to a police officer as soon as practicable.

(4) This section is in addition to and not in derogation of the powers or authority a police officer would have apart from this section.

6. Escape from detention

(1) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes, he may be arrested by—

(a) any public officer appointed under this Ordinance;

(b) any police officer; or

(c) any member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or Civil Aid Service,

and may be conveyed to the place from which he escaped or any other place authorized by a health officer and detained in that place.

(2) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes or attempts to escape, he commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

PART 4
Regulations

7. Power to make regulations

(1) The Secretary for Food and Health may make regulations (“the regulation”)—

(a) for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the transmission from, Hong Kong of any disease, source of disease or contamination; and

(b) for the prevention of any disease.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulation may provide for any or all of the following—