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Compulsory Quarantine of Persons Arriving at Hong Kong from Foreign Places Regulation L.N. 24 of 2010 Section 5 (5) A designation does not derogate from any power of a health officer under the Prevention and Control of Disease Regulation (Cap. 599 sub. leg. A) concerning quarantine and isolation of persons.

5. Giving false or misleading information about status is offence

(1) A person who is not designated under section 4(1) must not represent to any public officer that the person is so designated.

(2) A person who does not fall within a category of persons designated under section 4(1) must not knowingly or recklessly give any information that is false or misleading in a material particular to any public officer with a view to making the officer believe that the person falls within that category of persons.

(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

6. Place of quarantine

A person placed under quarantine under section 3 must, during the quarantine period, be quarantined—
 * (a) in a place assigned by an authorized officer; or
 * (b) if an authorized officer considers it prudent and appropriate in the circumstances of the case—in a place nominated by the person when the quarantine order is made against the person.

7. Power to restrain persons for quarantine etc.

If a person placed under quarantine under section 3 is to be quarantined in an assigned place of quarantine (the place), an authorized officer may, for effecting the quarantine—