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QUARANTINE ORDINANCE, 1951 (CAP
77)
CHAPTER 77
(Gold Coast)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short Title and Application.
2. Interpretation.
3. Declaration of Place as
Infected.
4. Regulations.
5. Appointment of Officers.
6. Appointment of Sanitary
Stations, Anchorages, etc.
7. Penalties.
8. Legal Proceedings.
McCarthy Cap.67. Ordinances Nos. 2
of 1915, 27 of 1932, 13 of 1935,
12 of 1938
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAW WITH
RESPECT TO QUARANTINE.
Date of Commencement: 2nd March,
1915.
Section 1—Short Title and
Application.
This Ordinance may be cited as the
"Quarantine Ordinance," and shall
apply to the Gold Coast. (Amended
by 12 of 1938, s.3.)
Section 2—Interpretation.
In this Ordinance, unless the
context otherwise requires—
"Minister" means the Minister
responsible for Health.
Section 3—Declaration of Place as
Infected.
Where a place is an infected place
within the meaning of any
regulations which are now or may
from time to time be in force
under the provisions of this
Ordinance, the Minister may by
order declare such place to be an
infected place. (Amended by 27 of
1932, s.6.)
Section 4—Regulations.
(1)(a) The Minister may from time
to time make regulations for the
purpose of preventing the
introduction of disease into the
Gold Coast, or any part thereof,
from an infected place, or for the
purpose of preventing the
transmission of disease from the
Gold Coast into any other country
or Colony.
(b) All regulations made under
this section shall apply to the
whole of the Gold Coast or to such
part thereof as shall be mentioned
in such regulations.
(Amended by 12 of 1938, s.3.)
(2) Such regulations may prescribe
the person by whom the expenses of
carrying out any regulation or
order made under this Ordinance
shall be borne and paid and the
persons from whom any such
expenses incurred or charged by
the Government may be recovered.
Section 5—Appointment of Officers.
The Minister may from time to time
by writing under his hand appoint
such fit and proper persons to be
officers as may be necessary to
enforce and carry out the
provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 6—Appointment of Sanitary
Stations, Anchorages, etc.
The Minister may from time to time
provide such sanitary stations,
buildings, and equipment, and by
order appoint such sanitary
anchorages as he may think
necessary for the purposes of this
Ordinance.
Section 7—Penalties.
Any person who shall contravene
any regulation or order made under
the authority of this Ordinance
shall be guilty of an offence
against this Ordinance, and on
conviction thereof shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding one
hundred pounds or to imprisonment
with or without hard labour for a
term not exceeding six months.
Section 8—Legal Proceedings.
Proceedings for recovering any
penalty or imposing any term of
imprisonment for the breach of or
for recovering any expenses
incurred or charged by the
Government in carrying out any
regulation or order made under
this Ordinance may be commenced
before and determined by any
Magistrate. (Amended by 13 of
1935, s.3.) |
