Jersey Law 6/1950
PUBLIC HEALTH (VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1950.
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A LAW to
make provision for preventing danger to public health in connexion
with the arrival and departure of vessels and aircraft, sanctioned by Order of
His Majesty in Council of the
25th day of APRIL, 1950.
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(Registered on the 13th day of May, 1950).
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STATES OF JERSEY.
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The 14th day of February,
1950.
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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of
His Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law: -
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
In this Law –
“coastal waters” means waters within a distance of
three nautical miles from any point on the coast measured from low-water mark
of ordinary spring tides;
“the Committee” means the Public Health Committee;
“vessel” includes any ship or boat, or any other
description of vessel used in navigation.
ARTICLE 2
POWER OF COMMITTEE TO MAKE ORDERS
(1) Subject
to the provisions of this Law, the Committee may, as respects the whole or any
part of the Island, including the coastal waters thereof, make provision by
order –
(a) for preventing danger to
public health from vessels or aircraft arriving in the Island; and
(b) for preventing the spread of
infection by means of any vessel or aircraft leaving the Island, so far as may
be necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying out any treaty,
convention, arrangement or engagement with any other country;
and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may by
any such order apply, with or without modifications, to any disease to which
the order relates, any enactment relating to the notification of disease or to notifiable diseases:
Provided that, before making any order under this paragraph, the
Committee shall consult with the Harbours and Airport
Committee.
(2) Any
order made under this Article may provide for –
(a) the signals to be displayed
by vessels or aircraft having on board any case of epidemic, endemic or
infectious disease;
(b) the questions to be answered
by masters, pilots and other persons on board any vessel or aircraft as to
cases of such disease on board during the voyage or on arrival;
(c) the duties to be performed in
cases of such diseases by masters, pilots and other persons on board vessels or
aircraft;
(d) the recovery of monetary
penalties in respect of any contravention of or failure to comply with any
provisions of the order, so, however, that such penalties shall not exceed
those specified in Article 4 of this Law;
(e) the detention of vessels or
aircraft or of persons on board them;
and may authorise the making of charges
and provide for the recovery of such charges and of any expenses incurred in disinfection.
(3) Every
order made under this Article –
(a) shall come into force on the
date prescribed thereby;
(b) may be amended or revoked by
a subsequent order;
(c) shall remain in force until
revoked; and
(d) shall be laid before the
States as soon as may be after it is made, and if the States, within the period
of twenty-one days beginning with the day on which any such order is laid
before them, resolve that it be annulled, it shall cease to have effect, but
without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of
any new order.
(4) The
Greffier of the States shall cause every order made
under this Article to be printed and shall cause to be published in two
newspapers circulating in the Island, one being a publication in French and the
other a publication in English, a notice
stating that the order has been made, the date of the coming into force thereof
and the place at which printed copies thereof may be purchased.
ARTICLE 3
POWER OF ENTRY
The Medical Officer of Health, and any person generally or
specially authorized in writing in that behalf by the Committee, subject to the
production by him if so required of evidence of his authority, shall have power
to enter any premises, vessel or aircraft for the purpose of executing, or
superintending the execution of, any orders made under this Law.
ARTICLE 4
OFFENCES
Any person who wilfully neglects or
refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution of, the provisions of
any order made under this Law shall, in a case where no provision is made by
the order for his punishment, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
pounds sterling and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not
exceeding fifty pounds sterling for every day on which the offence continues
after conviction therefor:
Provided that the court may, in lieu of or in addition to imposing
a monetary penalty, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding
three months.
ARTICLE 5
FEES AND EXPENSES
(1) All
charges and other monies received in pursuance of this Law shall be credited to
the General Revenues of the States.
(2) All
expenses incurred in the administration of this Law shall be defrayed out of
the General Revenues of the States.
ARTICLE 6
REPEAL
The following Laws are hereby repealed –
(a) the “Loi rendant applicables
à cette Ile certaines provisions de l’Acte
de Parlement dit
‘Public Health Act, 1896’ (59 & 60 Vict.
ch. 19), et des Règlements
émanant du ‘Local Government Board’
en vertu dudit Acte”, confirmed by Order of Her Majesty in Council
of the 18th day of May, 1897; and
(b) the “Loi rendant applicables
à cette Ile certaines prescriptions des Règlements,
émanant du ‘Local Government Board’
en vertu des ‘Public Health Acts’ au sujet de la Visite des Navires”, confirmed by Order of His Majesty in
Council of the 31st day of May, 1910.
ARTICLE 7
CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT
(1) This
Law may be cited as the Public Health (Vessels and Aircraft) (Jersey) Law,
1950.
(2) This
Law shall come into force forthwith upon promulgation:
Provided that Article 6 of this Law shall not come into force until
the date of commencement of the first order made in relation to vessels under
sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of
Article 2 of this Law.
To be printed, published and posted.
F. DE L. BOIS,
Greffier of the States.