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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE ORDINANCE (2) If a person obstructs a health officer, a police officer, a member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or a member of the Civil Aid Service or a public officer appointed under this Ordinance who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Ordinance, or assists in any such obstruction, that officer or member may arrest that person without warrant.

(3) Where a health officer or a member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or a member of the Civil Aid Service or a public officer appointed under this Ordinance arrests a person under this section, the person who made the arrest shall deliver the person arrested to a police officer as soon as practicable.

(4) This section is in addition to and not in derogation of the powers or authority a police officer would have apart from this section.

6. Escape from detention

(1) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes, he may be arrested by—


 * (a) any public officer appointed under this Ordinance;
 * (b) any police officer; or
 * (c) any member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or Civil Aid Service,

and may be conveyed to the place from which he escaped or any other place authorized by a health officer and detained in that place.

(2) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes or attempts to escape, he commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. PART 4 7. Power to make regulations

(1) The Secretary for Food and Health may make regulations (“the regulation”)—
 * (a) for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the transmission from, Hong Kong of any disease, source of disease or contamination; and
 * (b) for the prevention of any disease.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulation may provide for any or all of the following—