Section 2. For clause (p) of section 6, sub-section (1), of the Indian Ports Act, 1908, the following shall be xv of 1908

2. For clause (p) of section 6, sub-section (1), of the Indian Ports Act, 1908, the following shall be xv of 1908. Amendment of section 6, Act XV, 1908. substituted, namely :— "(p) subject to the control of the Governor General in Council, for the prevention of danger arising to the public health by the introduction and the spread of any infectious or contagious disease from vessels arriving at, or being in, any such port, and for the prevention of the conveyance of infection or contagion by means of any vessel sailing from any such port, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of this provision, for— (i) the signals to be hoisted and the places of anchorage to be taken up by such vessels having any case, or suspected case, of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or arriving at such port from a port in which, or in the neighbourhood of which, there is believed to be, or to have been at the time when the vessel left such port, any infectious or contagious disease; (ii) the 1911.] Ports. 63 (ii) the medical inspection of such vessels and of persons on board such vessels; (iii) the questions to be answered and the information to be supplied by masters, pilots and other persons on board such vessels; (iv) the detention of such vessels and of persons on board such vessels; (v) the duties to be performed in cases of any such disease by masters, pilots and other persons on board such vessels; (vi) the removal to hospital or other place approved by the health-officer and the detention therein of any person from any such vessel who is suffering or suspected to be suffering from any such disease; (vii) the cleansing, ventilation and disinfection of such vessels or any part thereof and of any articles therein likely to retain infection or contagion, and the destruction of rats or other vermin in such vessels; and (viii) the disposal of the dead on such vessels; and ".