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Article III.—The Manchester Regulations shall apply and have effect as
if for Article XYIII. of the Manchester Regulations the following Article
were substituted, that is to say :—
" Article XVIII.—The Master of every ship bound to the Port of
" Manchester, and infected with Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague,
" shall, when the ship is within three miles of the coast of any part of
" England or Wales, or is within the limits of a Port, cause to be
" hoisted—
" (i.) At the masthead or where it can be best seen, during the
" whole of the time between sunrise and sunset, a day signal,
" consisting of a large flag of yellow and black borne quarterly ; or
" (ii.) At the peak or other conspicuous place where it can be
" best seen, and at a height of not less than twenty feet above the
" hull of the ship, during the whole of the time between sunset
" and sunrise, a night signal, consisting of three lights, which
" shall be arranged, at a distance of not less than six feet apart,
" in the form of an equilateral triangle, and of which the light
" at the apex of the triangle shall be white, and the other
" lights at the ends of the base of the triangle shall be red in
" colour.
" No person (other than an Officer of Customs or a person acting in
" the execution of this Order) shall leave the aforesaid ship until after
" such visit of the Officer of Customs as is mentioned in Article II., or
" until after the visit of the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool
" Port Sanitary Authority or of the Medical Officer of Health of the
" Manchester Port Sanitary Authority in pursuance of Article III."
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year One thousand nine
hundred and two.
Notice.—Tlie Public Health Act, 1896, provides by sub-section (3) of Section 1 that if any
person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution of, any regulation
made under section one hundred and thirty of the Public Health Act, 1875, or in pursuance of
that section as extended to London by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and as amended
by the Public Health Act, 1896, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds,
and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every
day during which the offence continues.
WALTER H. LONG,
President.
S. B. PROYIS,
Secretary.
Date of publication in the London Gazette, 26th December, 1902.