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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE
ORDINANCE

Ord. No. 14 of 2008
A655


(a) the appointment of health officers, other public officers and any other person for the purposes of this Ordinance, and their powers, duties and functions;
(b) the form and mode of service of notices and other documents;
(c) fees to be paid under this Ordinance;
(d) the prohibition or regulation of the disposal, importation, transit, transhipment, exportation or removal of—
(i) organs, tissue, cells, dead bodies or remains (whether of human beings or animals);
(ii) infected articles; or
(iii) vectors;
(e) the prohibition or regulation of—
(i) the admission of persons into Hong Kong or their movements within or their departure from Hong Kong; and
(ii) the importation, transit, transhipment or exportation of any article;
(f) the isolation or quarantine of any person, article or place and their management or disposal while under isolation or quarantine and the occupation of any place required for isolation or quarantine;
(g) in relation to conveyances—
(i) the prohibition or regulation of their arrival or landing in or departure from Hong Kong;
(ii) the disembarking of any person or the unloading of any article from them;
(iii) matters relating to pratique;
(iv) precautions with regard to drinking water and food stuff taken on board conveyances and the water taken in as ballast by them; and
(v) the granting of certificates in respect of their sanitariness;
(h) subjecting any person to medical surveillance or medical examination or testing, and matters relating to vaccination and prophylaxis;
(i) the prohibition or regulation of the movements of contacts, infected persons or persons suspected of being infected;
(j) examination of dead bodies and certification of the cause of death;
(k) the occupation of any place required for the treatment of any person;
(l) empowering a magistrate to issue a warrant authorizing a health officer to enter or break into any residential premises, and empowering a health officer to enter or break into any other place;