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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE ORDINANCE :(w) the liability of any person in respect of the costs that are incurred in connection with the enforcement of this Ordinance and the payment to the Government of any expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and maintenance of any person in connection with such enforcement; and
 * (x) any other matter that appears to the Secretary for Food and Health to be necessary or expedient for the carrying out of the purposes specified in subsection (1).

(3) The regulation may provide that a contravention of any provision of the regulation is an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding level 3 and a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months.

(4) The Secretary for Food and Health after consultation with the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury may by order published in the Gazette amend the fees prescribed in the regulation.

8. Public health emergency regulation

(1) On any occasion which the Chief Executive in Council considers to be an occasion of a public health emergency, he may make regulations (“the regulation”) for the purposes of preventing, combating or alleviating the effects of the public health emergency and protecting public health.

(2) The Chief Executive in Council shall review from time to time, or cause to be reviewed from time to time, the public health emergency in respect of which the regulation is made.

(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulation may provide for—
 * (a) requirements on a person to disclose or furnish any information that is relevant to the handling of a state of public health emergency;
 * (b) the disclosure to the public by a public officer of any information that is relevant to the handling of a state of public health emergency;
 * (c) the requisitioning of property and matters relating to compensation for such requisition;
 * (d) matters relating to the appointment of any person to act as a medical and health professional, the control of such appointed person, and the deeming of such appointed person to be registered under any enactment; and
 * (e) such incidental and supplementary matters as appear to the Chief Executive in Council to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulation.