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Compulsory Quarantine of Persons Arriving at Hong Kong from Foreign Places Regulation L.N. 24 of 2010 Section 12 (2) No personal liability is incurred by an authorized officer or a person acting under the officer’s direction in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the officer or person in good faith in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Regulation.

(3) A public officer appointed as an authorized officer within the meaning of the Compulsory Quarantine of Certain Persons Arriving at Hong Kong Regulation (Cap. 599 sub. leg. C) is deemed to have been appointed under subsection (1) as an authorized officer.

12. Secretary for Food and Health may specify places

(1) For the purposes of section 3(1)(a), the Secretary for Food and Health may—
 * (a) specify any place outside China by notice published in the Gazette; and
 * (b) revoke or amend a specification under paragraph (a).

(2) A notice published under subsection (1) is not subsidiary legislation.

(3) Before exercising the power conferred by subsection (1) in relation to a place, the Secretary for Food and Health must have regard to—
 * (a) the extent of the spread of the disease specified in item 34AAA of Schedule 1 to the Ordinance in that place; and
 * (b) the public health risk posed to Hong Kong by persons arriving from that place or who have stayed in that place.

13. Expiry

This Regulation expires at midnight on 18 June 2020.