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L. S. NO. 2 TO GAZETTE NO. 23/2008 24. The body of a deceased person that is infected with a specified infectious disease has to be disposed of according to the direction of a health officer and can only be deposited in a place specified in the Regulation. (Sections 34 and 35)

25. An operator of a cross-boundary conveyance is required to notify a health officer of the death of a person on the conveyance and to dispose of the body according to the direction of a health officer. (Section 36)

26. A health officer may direct an owner or occupier of any premises, an operator of a point of entry, an operator of a conveyance (whether or not it is a cross-boundary conveyance) to carry out a disease control measure (defined to include cleansing, deratting, disinfection, disinsection and decontamination) in respect of the premises, point of entry or conveyance. This power can be exercised if the health officer believes that a case or source of a specified infectious disease exists or existed in the place or conveyance concerned. A health officer may also exercise the power in respect of a point of entry or a cross-boundary conveyance if he believes that it is in an insanitary condition. A health officer may also require an owner of a well to clean and disinfect it. If any such direction or requirement is not carried out by the person concerned, the health officer can carry it out and the relevant costs can be recovered as a debt due to the Government. (Sections 37 to 40)

27. A health officer may order a disease control measure to be carried out in respect of an article that is infected with a specified infectious disease, and may order the destruction of an infected article. The relevant costs can be recovered as a debt due to the Government. (Section 41)

28. The Director may require an owner or a person in charge of a laboratory to surrender scheduled infectious agents under his control or possession if the laboratory does not have the facilities or the staff is not competent to handle the agent or the agent is handled in a manner that may pose a public health risk. (Section 42)

29. The owner or the person in charge of a laboratory has to notify the Director of any leakage of a scheduled infectious agent that may pose a public health risk. (Section 43)

30. The operator of a cross-boundary vessel entering Hong Kong waters is required to submit a Maritime Declaration of Health and produce for inspection a Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate or a Ship