Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance.

This Ordinance is enacted to make provisions for preventing the introduction into sri Lanka of the plague and all contagious or infectious diseases and for preventing the spread of such diseases in and outside Sri Lanka.
The Minister may, from time to time, make, and when made revoke or vary, such regulations as may seem necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing the introduction into Sri Lanka of any disease, and also preventing the spread of any disease in and outside Sri Lanka (Sec. 2). The Regulations made under Section 2 may provide: for isolating all cases of disease and diseased persons; for establishing and maintaining quarantine stations, and for regulating the management of the same, and for the charging, imposing, and recovering of fees for the use and occupation of such stations, and for the cost of maintenance of the persons occupying the same; for closing wells, pits, cesspits, and cesspools; for the disinfecting and, if expedient, destroying, with or without compensation as may be deemed expedient, goods which have been in contact with any diseased person, or which may be deemed capable of spreading disease; etc. The Ordinance further makes provisions for: offences and penalties, duties of inspectors and police officers, etc.