Authorizing the Board of Health to Promulgate Quarantine Regulations for Vessels Engaged in Coastwise Trade
Act No. 1340, enacted on May 4, 1905, empowers the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands to establish quarantine regulations for vessels engaged in coastwise trade, excluding designated ports of entry. These regulations require the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and must be published in the Official Gazette to be enforceable as law. Violations of these regulations can result in fines up to five hundred pesos and can be prosecuted in competent courts. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its implementation for public health safety.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 1340
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
May 4, 1905
ACT NO. 1340
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO PROMULGATE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE COASTWISE TRADE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
SECTION 1. The Board of Health for the Philippine Islands shall, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, make and promulgate quarantine regulations for the government of vessels entering all ports of the Philippine Islands, except ports of entry, and fix penalties for violations thereof: Provided, however, That such penalties shall in no case exceed a fine of five hundred pesos, Philippine currency; such quarantine regulations so made and promulgated shall be published at least once in the Official Gazette, and, upon such publication, they shall have the force and effect of law, and violations thereof may be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, May 4, 1905.
Cite This Law
Authorizing the Board of Health to Promulgate Quarantine Regulations for Vessels Engaged in Coastwise Trade, Act No. 1340, May 4, 1905 (Philippines)
Authorizing the Board of Health to Promulgate Quarantine Regulations for Vessels Engaged in Coastwise Trade, Act No. 1340 (Phil. 1905)
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