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(2.) Any such surgeon, dispenser, or other medical officer who refuses to answer any such question so put to him, or makes any false answer to any such question, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. 7. (1.) No master whose vessel has not been admitted to pratique shall approach to within one hundred yards of any other vessel, and no person from such vessel shall go on shore or to any other vessel in the anchorage. (2.) Every person violating this provision is liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 8. (1.) No person shall, with a boat or otherwise, except officers of the Niue .\dministration, go alongside of any ship arriving in Niue from beyond sea until such ship has been granted pratique by the H ealth Officer and the yellow flag has been hauled down ; and no person otherwise than the Port Health Officer or a pilot shall go on board the ship from any boat until such time as aforesaid. (2.) Every person violating this provision is liable to a penalty of not exceeding fifty pounds. 9. His Majesty's mails may be landed from any ship in the boat of the Health Officer, who shall cause such mails to be properly fumigated if he shall deem it necessary. 10. No leper shall be allowed to land in Niue. 11. Whenever it shall appear to the Health Officer that any of the diseases set forth in the Schedule herein were prevalent at the vessel's last port of call at the time of sailing, he shall declare such a ship to be in quarantine for the period set forth in the Schedule for each disease respectively, counting as part of the period the number of days the vessel has been at sea. Whenever the period of quarantine in the Schedulers less than the time occupied by the voyage to Niue, the vessel shall be admitted to pratique. But if the Health Officer thinks that any of the diseases named in the Schedule have occurred in the vessel during the voyage to Niue, the period of quarantine shall date from the convalescence of the last case. Disease. P< "°d- Disease. Period. Cholera ... ... 10 days. Typhus fever ... 10 days. Small-pox... ... 12 „ Yellow fever ... 10 Scarlet fever ... 10 „ Dengue fever ... 10 „ Scarlatina... ... 10 „ Measles ... ... 14 Diphtheria... ... 14 „ Bubonic plague ... 14 12. When a ship arrives from, or after having touched at, an infected place, and is therefore liable to quarantine, or is otherwise liable to quarantine, the Health Officer shall immediately give notice of such liability to the master of the ship, and if he neglects to do so he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. 13. (1.) The master of any ship, upon being ordered into quarantine, shall keep the yellow flag hoisted at the maintopmast-head by day, and a green lantern by night, as a signal until such ship is discharged from quarantine. (2.) Any such master who fails to hoist or keep hoisted such signal shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. The foregoing " Niue Island Quarantine Regulations Ordinance, 1906," was passed by the Niue Island Council, at Alofi, this ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six. Tagavaitoa, .\cting President of Niue Island Council. Approved. C. F. Maxwell, Resident Commissioner, Niue. Assented to in the name and on behalf of His Majesty. Plunket, Governoi. "22nd January, 1907.

Federal Ordinance No. 19.— Immigrants Rkstriction Ordinance, 1907. An Ordinance to prevent the Landing in the Cook and Northern Islands of Persons suffering from Diseases. Be it enacted by the Federal Council of the Cook and Northern Islands as follows:— 1. The Short Title of this Ordinance shall be " The Immigrants Restriction Ordinance, 1907." 2. It shall not be lawful for any person suffering from a contagious or infectious disease which is loathsome or dangerous to be brought to or to land in the said islands. 3. In anv case where any person prohibited as aforesaid unlawfully lands in the said islands such persons "shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds (£50), and shall also be liable to be removed from the said islands, and pending such removal to be detained in prison, quarantine, or other safe custody. 4. The master and owner of the vessel by which such person was brought to the said islands shall be jointly and severally liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds (£50) in respect of each such person, and shall also be liable to take away such person from the said islands, and to defrav the expenses incurred by the Government in respect of such person's removal from the said" islands, and of his detention and maintenance in the said islands pending such removal : Provided that no proceedings shall be taken against such master or owner after the expiration of three calendar months from the date of such person so unlawfully landing as aforesaid.