Quarantine Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 138.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1924, to come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1934.

Dated this fifteenth day of December, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR

Minister for Health.

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Amendment of Quarantine Regulation 1927.

The Quarantine Regulations 1927 (Statutory Rules 1927, No. 8) are amended by omitting regulation 3 and substituting therefor the following regulation:—

“3. The Quarantine Signal shall be—

(1) From sunrise to sunset—

(a) For oversea vessels free from known quarantinable disease, but subject to quarantine the flag known as Q flag in the International Code of Signals being a yellow flag of six breadths of bunting.

(b)For vessels which have had a case of quarantinable disease on board more than 5 days previously or on which there has been unusual mortality among rats, the Two Flag Signal QQ.

(c) For vessels which have had a case of quarantinable disease on board less than 5 days previously, the Two Flag Signal QL, being the flag known as Q flag over L flag in the International Code of Signals. L flag is a large flag of yellow and black, borne quarterly.

The flag signal from sunrise to sunset shall be shown at the masthead or where it can best be seen and at least 20 feet above the highest deck structure.

(2) From sunset to sunrise—

A signal comprising a red light over a white light, the lights being not more than 6 feet apart, of such a character as to be visible on a clear night all round the horizon for a distance of two miles, and placed as nearly as practicable amidships.”

    

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.