Sanitation Control Certificate, to a health officer. A health officer may endorse on the Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate or Ship Sanitation Control Certificate produced for inspection matters relating to the evidence of infection or contamination found on the relevant vessel, the sanitariness of the vessel and the disease control measure that has been or is to be carried out, and may state on the relevant certificate that the certificate has been superseded by another certificate. (Sections 44, 45 and 48)
31. A health officer may issue a Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate if satisfied of the sanitary condition of the vessel and the vessel is free from evidence of infection or contamination, or a Ship Sanitation Control Certificate stating whether the disease control measure specified by him has or has not been carried out to his satisfaction. (Sections 46 and 47)
32. A cross-boundary aircraft entering the air space of Hong Kong has to submit the Health Part of the Aircraft General Declaration. (Section 49)
Part 10—Pratique
33. In the absence of free pratique, persons or articles cannot be disembarked or unloaded, a quarantine signal (set out in Schedule 2) has to be shown on the vessel, a person cannot approach within 30 metres of it and the vessel has to proceed to a quarantine anchorage. (Sections 50 to 53)
34. A health officer may give free pratique to a cross-boundary vessel that is in a sanitary condition. (Section 54)
Part 11—Regulation on landing and departure of cross-boundary aircrafts
35. A health officer may direct the Director-General of Civil Aviation to require an aircraft that has a case or source of a specified infectious disease or contamination to land at a specified aerodrome, regulate its leaving from the aerodrome, and to regulate the disembarking or unloading of persons or articles from the aircraft. (Section 55)
Part 12—Control measures in respect of specified diseases
36. This Part provides for control measures to be applied to persons leaving Hong Kong to prevent the introduction into or transmission from Hong Kong of specified diseases.
37. Persons who are suffering from or are exposed to the risk of infection of a specified disease can be directed not to leave Hong Kong without the written permission of a health officer. If a person seeks to leave Hong Kong after being directed not to do so, he may be stopped and detained. The temperature of a person who is arriving or seeking to leave Hong Kong can be taken at a point of entry. (Sections 56 to 59)
