Quarantine (CAP. 361 1
CHAPTER 361
T H E QUARANTINE ACT
Arrangement of Sections
Section
1. Short title.
2 . Interpretation.
3 . Establishment of Quarantine Authority and appointment
of staff.
4. Regulations.
5. Power to make rules.
6. Power to make orders in emergency.
7 . Offences and penalties.
8. Rewards to informers.
9. Expenses and charges
10. Duty and power of the Police.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
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QUARANTINE
(26th July, 1946.)
1011950.
S.R.O. 2211956.
1811989.
1. This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Act. Short title.
2. ( 1 ) In this Act- Interpretation.
"aerodrome" includes both land and water aerodromes;
"aircraft" includes any machine which can derive
support in the atmosphere from the reactions of
the air and is intended for aerial navigation;
"commander" includes any person for the time being
in charge or command of an aircraft;
" master" includes any person for the time being in
charge or command of a ship;
"port" includes any.place at which ships arrive or from
which they depart;
"ship7' includes a vessel or boat.
(2) References hereinafter made to "this Act" shall be
deemed to include a reference to any regulations, rules or
orders in force by virtue thereof.
3. ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a gtz,"itfirt of
Quarantine Authority in Antigua and Barbuda. Authority and
appointment of
staff.
( 2 ) The Quarantine Authority in Antigua and Barbuda
shall be such person as may be appointed by the Governor-
General.
(3) The Governor-General may appoint Health Officers,
Visiting Officers, quarantine guards and such other
employees and servants as may be necessary for the purposes
of this Act.
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(4) Health Officers and Visiting Officers shall, in the
exercise of their powers and the performance of their duties
under this Act, act under the general or special direction
and ~ontrol of the Quarantine Authority.
Regulations. 4. (1) The Cabinet may make regulations, with
respect to Antigua and Barbuda, including the ports and
coastal waters thereof, for preventing-
(a) danger to public health from ships or aircraft,
or persons or things therein, arriving at any place; and
(6) the spread of infection, by means of any ship
or aircraft about to leave any place, or by beans of any
person or thing about to leave any place in any ship
or aircraft.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers
conferred by subsection ( I ) , regulations under that sub-
section may, for the purposes therein set forth, make
provision for all or any of the following matters-
(a) the collection and transmission of
epidemiological and sanitary information;
(6) the signals to be displayed by ships or aircraft;
(c) the questions to be answered and information
(whether oral or documentary) to be supplied by masters,
commanders and other persons who are or have been
on board any ship or aircraft or are desirous of boarding
any ship or aircraft;
(4 the detention of ships or aircraft and of persons
who and things which are or have been on board them;
(e) the destruction of things which are or have been
on board ships or aircraft;
(f) the duties to be performed by masters,
commanders and other persons who are or have been
on board ships or aircraft or who are desirous of
boarding any ship or aircraft;
(g) authorizing the making of charges and
providing for the recovery of charges and expenses;
(h) the enforcement of the regulations;
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(1 ) the conferring on appropriate officers of powers
to board ships and aircraft and to enter premises.
(3) Regulations made under subsection (1) shall be laid
before Parliament and if a resolution is passed by Parlia-
ment that the regulations or any of them shall be annulled
the same shall thenceforth be void but without prejudice to
the validity of any thing previously done thereunder or to
the making of any new regulations.
(4) The regulations contained in the First and Second First and Second
Schedules shall be deemed to have been made and laid before Schedules.
Parliament under the provisions of this section.
5 . (1) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, Power to make
rules.
the Quarantine Authority may make rules for implement-
ing or carrying into effect any regulations in force by virtue
of section 4 and for supplementing any such regulations as
regards any matters for which the Quarantine Authority may
deem it expedient to provide with a view to carrying into
effect the purposes set forth in subsection (1) of that section.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers
conferred by subsection (I), rules under that subsection may,
for the purposes therein set forth, make provision for all or
any of the following matters-
(a) regulating the grant or withdrawal of pratique;
(6) regulating the issue of bills of health, certificates,
and other documents;
(c) the governance of quarantine mooring stations,
anchorages and berthing places, and of places where
persons or things are detained or taken for examination
and of places used for the observation or isolation of
persons;
(4 the sanitation of ports and aerodromes and their
surroundings, including measures for keeping them free
from rodents, mosquitoes and other vectors of disease;
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( e ) fixing the charges sanctioned by regulations in
force by virtue of section 4 and providing for their
incidence.
(3) The power to make rules under this section shall
be without prejudice to any power to make regulations under
section 4:
Provided that rules shall not have any force or effect
if and to the extent that they are at any time inconsistent
wjth any regulations in force by virtue of section 4.
( 4 ) Rules made by the Quarantine Authority under this
section shall not have any force or effect unless they are
approved by the Cabinet, and, in approving any rules, the
Cabinet may make any amendments thereto which they may
deem desirable.
Power to make
orders in
6. ( 1 ) When in the opinion of the Quarantine
emergency. Authority an emergency exists, the Quarantine Authority
may by order direct special measures to be taken during the
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continuance of that emergency for any of the purposes
specified in sections 4 and 5, and any such order shall have
effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any
regulations or rules in force by virtue of those sections.
(2) An order made under subsection ( 1 ) may be varied
or rescinded by order of the Governor-General.
Offences and
penalties.
7. (1) Any person who-
(a) refuses to answer or knowingly gives an untrue
answer to any inquiry made under the authority of this
Act, or intentionally withholds any information
reasonably required of him by any officer or other person
acting under the authority of this Act, or knowingly
furnishes to any such officer or other person any
information which is false; or
(6) refuses or wilfully omits to do any act which
he is required to do by this Act, or refuses or wilfully
omits to carry out any lawful order, instruction or con-
dition made, given or imposed by any officer or other
person acting under the authority of this Act; or
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( 6 ) assaults, resists, wilfully obstructs, or intimidates
any officer or other person acting under the authority
of this Act, or offers or gives a bribe to any officer or
person in connection with his powers or duties under
this Act, or being such officer or person, demands,
solicits or takes a bribe in connection with his powers
or duties under this Act, or otherwise obstructs the
execution of this Act,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or
to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to
both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Any person who is guilty of any other offence against
this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars or to a term of imprisonment
not exceeding six months or to both such fine and
imprisonment.
Rewards to 8. The Governor-General may direct that any part .
informers.
of any fine recovered in respect of any offence against this
Act shall be paid to any person who has given information
leading to the conviction of an offender.
9. (1) The expenses of the administration of this Act :;g;r and
shall be defrayed out of the general revenue of Antigua and
Barbuda.
(2) All expenses and charges payable to the Quarantine
Authority under this Act may be sued for and recovered by
him or by any Health Officer before any court of competent
jurisdiction, and a certificate purporting to be under the hand
of the Quarantine Authority to the effect that the expenses
or charges sued for are due and payable shall be received
in evidence and shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein
stated, unless the contrary be shown.
(3) Any sum received or recovered by the Quarantine
Authority in payment of expenses or charges payable to him
under this Act shall be forthwith paid by him into the general
revenue of Antigua and Barbuda.
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Duty and power
of the Police. 10. (1) It shall be the duty of every member of the
police force to enforce (using force if necessary) compliance
with this Act and with any order, instruction or condition
l a~ fu l l y made, given or imposed by any officer or other
person under the authority of this Act; and for such purpose
any member of the police force may board any ship or air-
craft and may enter any premises without a warrant.
(2) Any member of the police force may arrest without
a warrant any person whom he has reasonable cause to
believe to have committed any offence against this Act.
(3) In this section the expression "member of the police
force" includes a member of any police organization
constituted by law who has the general powers of a member
of the police force.
Short title.
Interpretation.
FIRST SCHEDULE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine
(Maritime) Regulations.
2. In these Regulations-
"~edes" means ~ e d e s aegypti and any potential mosquito
vectors of yellow fever;
" approved port" means a port or place in which a Health
Officer is authorized by the Governor-General to grant
deratisation certificates and deratisation exemption
certificates;
"authorized officer" means a person authorized to act as such
in the case in question by virtue of an order made under
regulation 3;
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"the Convention" means the International Sanitary Con-
vention signed at Paris on the 21st June, 1926 (and any
amendments thereto), of which relevant extracts are set
forth in the Appendix hereto;
"crew" includes any person having duties on board the ship
in connection with the voyage thereof or employed in
any way in the service of the ship, the passengers or
the cargo;
"day" means an interval of twenty-four hours;
"deratisation certificate" and "deratisation exemption
certificate" mean respectively a deratisation certificate
or a deratisation exemption certificate issued under
regulations 27 and 28 or otherwise issued in conformity
with Article 28 of the Convention;
"foreign port" means a port or place situated elsewhere than
in Antigua and Barbuda;
"Health Officer" means the appropriate officer appointed
as such under section 3 of the Act, and includes a medical
practitioner acting under the direction of the Quarantine
Authority or a Health Officer for the purpose of
executing these regulations or any of them;
''. immune" in relation to yellow fever, means that the person
in question produces a certificate to the satisfaction of
the Health Officer issued by a medical officer or
institution recognised by the Quarantine Authority-
(a) to the effect that the bearer has been
inoculated for the first time more than ten days
and less than four years previously; or
( b ) to the effect that he has been reinoculated
within the past four years; or
(c ) to the effect that he has recovered from
an attack of yellow fever and that his blood contains
immune bodies against yellow fever as proved by
a test carried out by an institution regularly
carrying out biological tests for yellow fever;
"infected area", "infected port", "infected place" and
"infected local area" mean a local area in which the
Health Officer has reason to believe that-
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(a) a first case of plague recognized as non-
imported has occurred or in which rodent plague
exists or has existed during the previous six months;
or
( b ) cholera has formed a foyer, that is to say
that the occurrence of new cases beyond the
immediate surroundings of the first case proves that
the spread of the disease has not been limited to
the place where it began; or
( c ) a first case of yellow fever recognized as
non-imported has occurred; or
(4 typhus or smallpox exists in epidemic
form, that is to say that the occurrence of new cases
indicates that the spread of the disease is not under
control;
and includes a port or sea-board which serves an
infected local area;
"infectious disease" means any epidemic or acute infectious
disease, and includes open pulmonary tuberculosis but
does not include venereal disease;
"isolation" means the removal to a hospital or other suitable
place approved by the Health Officer of a person
suffering or suspected to be suffering from an infectious
disease, and his detention therein, until, in the opinion
of the Health Officer-
(a) he is free from infection; or
( 6 ) if not so free, he may be discharged
without undue danger to public health;
"local area" means a well defined area such as a province,
district, island, town or quarter of a town, port or village,
whatever may be its extent or population;
"master", "port" and "ship" have the meanings assigned
to them in section 2 of the Act;
"observation" means the detention under medical supervi-
sion of persons in such places and for such periods as
may be directed by a Health Officer;
" passenger" means any person, other than a member of the
crew, carried in a ship;
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"period of incubation" for the purpose of these regulations
shall be deemed to be-
................................ For plague 6 days
............................... For cholera 5 days
......................... For yellow fever 6 days
................................ For typhus 12 days
............................. For smallpox 14 days
"Quarantine Authority" means the Quarantine Authority
established under the powers conferred by section 3 of
the Act;
"specified infectious disease" means plague, cholera, yellow
fever, typhus and smallpox;
"suitably equipped port" in relation to any disease means
a port recognised by the Quarantine Authority as
possessing the necessary organisation and equipment
for dealing with that disease;
"surveillance" means that persons are not detained, that they
may move about freely, but that they are required to
report for medical examination at such intervals and
during such period and to such persons as may be
directed by a Health Officer;
"the Act" means the Quarantine Act.
"valid" in relation to a deratisation certificate or deratisa-
tion exemption certificate means issued within the last
preceding six months, or, where the ship in respect of
which the certificate is issued is proceeding to its home
port, the last preceding seven months;
"Visiting Officer" means the appropriate officer appointed
as such under section 3 of the Act or a person authorized
to act as such in the case in question by virtue of an
order made under regulation 3, and includes a Health
Officer where the context so permits.
3. (1) The Quarantine Authority may by order authorize Officers.
any officer or person or any member of a class of officers or persons
to act as a Visiting Officer or as an authorized officer for the
purposes of these regulations or for some specified purpose of these
regulations.
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(2) Every such officer or person shall exercise his powers and
perform his duties subject to the general or special direction and
control of the Quarantine Authority and the Health Officer.
Declarations of 4. The master of a ship approaching Antigua and Barbuda
health. from a foreign port shall ascertain the state of health of all persons
on board and shall prepare and sign a declaration of health in
Schedule A. the form in Schedule A hereto. If a ship's surgeon is carried on
board, he shall countersign the declaration.
Radio pratique. 5 . (1) The master of any ship approved by the Quarantine
Authority as eligible for radio pratique may apply for the same
by sending to the Visiting Officer not more than twelve and not
less than four hours before the expected arrival of the ship at a
port of Antigua and Barbuda a wireless message embodying such
of the items of information set out in Schedule B hereto as are
applicable.
Schedule B.
(2) Every such message shall, except in cases in which the
Quarantine Authority otherwise directs, conform with the section
relating to routine quarantine messages of the 1931 International
Code of Signals.
(3) The Visiting Officer may grant radio pratique to the ship
if he is satisfied from the wireless message aforesaid and other
information (if any) in his possession that no person on board
the ship has symptoms which may be indicative of infectious disease
and that there are no circumstances in relation to the ship requiring
medical attention. The Visiting Officer (if he is not the Health
Officer) shall, on receiving information in the wireless message
or otherwise that a person on board the ship has symptoms which
mav be indicative of infectious disease or that there are
circumstances in relation to the ship requiring medical attention,
forthwith inform the Health Officer.
(4) When a ship has been granted radio pratique, the master
shall, immediately on arrival at a port of Antigua and Barbuda,
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Health Officer the relevant
declaration of health, the ship's bill of health (if any) and the ship's
deratisation certificate or deratisation exemption certificate (if any).
Any bill of health, deratisation certificate or deratisation exemption
certificate shall be returned after inspection.
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6. The master of a ship coming from a foreign port shall Flags and
comply with the provisions as to flags and signal lights contained
in Schedule C. Schedule C.
7. (1) Every ship arriving at Antigua and Barbuda from Ships not granted
a foreign port, if radio pratique has not been granted, shall be ~~$~riF to
visited on arrival by the Visiting Officer and the master shall
thereupon surrender to the Visiting Officer the declaration of health
and present to him for inspection any other ship's papers which
the Visiting Officer may desire to inspect.
(2) The Visiting Officer is hereby authorized to put to the
master and to the ship's surgeon (if any) and to any person on
board the ship all such questions as he may deem advisable for
the execution of these regulations.
8. (1) NO person, other than a pilot or a person acting in Restrictions on
execution of these regulations, shall, without the general or special ~ , " a " ~ d , ' ~ ~ ~ ~ s
permission of the Health Qfficer, board or leave a ship coming coming from
from a foreign port before the same has been granted pratique, Ports.
and the master shall cause all reasonable steps to be taken to enforce
this provision.
(2) Before any person, other than a pilot or a person acting
in the execution of these regulations, leaves a ship arriving at
Antigua and Barbuda from a foreign port, he shall furnish all such
information as may reasonably be required by the Visiting Officer
or by an authorized officer, including information as to his name,
state of health and origin, and information as to places recently
visited and his destination and his address there and shall, if so
required by the Health Officer or an authorized officer, complete
and sign a certificate of origin and destination in a form from
time to time approved by the Quarantine Authority.
9. (1) A Visiting Officer may grant pratique to a ship on Granting of
visiting it if he is satisfied from the declaration of health and other- GI:~; : F ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .
wise that during the voyage, or if the voyage has lasted longer
than six weeks, during the six weeks immediately preceding
arrival-
(a) there has been no death or case of illness on board
suspected to be due to infectious disease; and
(6) there has been no plague or undue mortality among
rats or mice on board; and
(c ) the ship has not called at an infected port; and
(d) the ship was not overcrowded or in an insanitary
condition.
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Offences.
(2) If the Visiting Officer is not a Health Officer and is not
so satisfied-
(i) he may refuse pratique and thereupon the ship shall
1 be deemed to be in quarantine and the Visiting
Officer shall immediately inform the Health Officer
of such refusal;
(ii) the Health Officer shall forthwith visit the ship and
thereupon regulation 7 shall apply as though the
ship had not been previously visited.
(3) If the Visiting Officer is a Health Officer, then even if
he is not so satisfied, he shall grant pratique if he is of opinion
that none of the measures for which provision is made in these
regulations, other than those relating to persons or things disem-
barked, require to be taken or that all such measures as are
appropriate have been duly taken. If he is not of that opinion
he may refuse pratique and thereupon the ship shall be deemed
to be in quarantine.
10. The master of a ship, ship's surgeon, or other person
(as the case may be) who contravenes or fails to comply with the
provisions of regulations 4, 5 (4), 6, 7 or 8 shall be guilty of an
offence against these regulations.
Detention of 11. A Visiting Officer may give such directions as he may
ships. deem expedient to the master of a ship in quarantine for securing
the detention of the ship pending the granting of pratique, including
directions (if he thinks fit) to take the ship to a specified mooring
station, anchorage or berthing place generally or specially approved
by the Harbour Master (or other appropriate authority) for the
use of ships in quarantine.
Quarantine 12. A Visiting Officer may place on board any ship in
guards. quarantine such quarantine guards as he may think necessary.
Specified 13. In relation to specified infectious diseases, the measures
infectious
diseases. which may be taken and the circumstances in which they may
be taken shall be such as are specified in Articles 24 to 27 (both
inclusive) and Articles 29 to 42 (both inclusive) of the Convention,
and for that purpose these regulations shall have effect as though
those Articles were part of these regulations:
Provided that references in those Articles to the port sanitary
authority or the port authorities or the sanitary authority of the
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port or the Government, and so forth, shall be construed as though
they were references to the Quarantine Authority, the Health
Officers or an authorized officer.
14. (1) When any infectious disease other than a specified Other infectious
infectious disease has occurred on board a ship during the six weeks d'seases.
immediately preceding its arrival at a port of Antigua and Barbuda,
the Health Officer may require all or any of the measures specified
in paragraph (2) of this regulation to be taken.
(2) Such measures may include-
(a) medical inspection of the crew and passengers;
( 6 ) isolation of the sick either on board or on shore;
(c) su~ei l lance of the crew and passengers, who have
been exposed to infection, for 14 days or the period of
incubation of the disease (whichever is the shorter period)
from the last day of possible exposure to infection;
(d) disinfection of clothing and other articles and of the
parts of the ship which the Health Officer may consider
infected;
( e ) examination of food and water if considered sources
of infection and the application of appropriate measures;
( f ) destruction of animals, birds and insqcts which may
be considered as potential vectors of the disease.
15. The Health Officer may examine any person intending Genefal power to
to embark in a ship whom he suspects to be suffering from an z C r ' & T
infectious disease and if, after examination, he is of opinion that
the person shows symptoms of any infectious disease he may
prohibit his embarkation.
16. When any area of Antigua and Barbuda is an infected Infected areas in
area, the Health Officer shall cause to be taken measures- ~ , " ~ ~ ~ $ a ~ d
(a) to secure the medical examination of all persons about
to leave that area by sea so as to prevent the embarkation
of persons showing symptoms of any specified infectious
disease and of persons in such relations with the sick as to
render them liable to transmit the disease:
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(b ) in the case of plague, to prevent rats gaining access
to the ship, and, where indicated, to secure the destruction
of rats and mice on board;
(c ) in the case of cholera, to ensure that drinking water
and foodstuffs taken on board are wholesome, and that water
taken in as ballast is disinfected if necessary;
(d) in the case of yellow fever, to prevent mosquitoes
gaining access to ships;
( e ) in the case of typhus, to secure the delousing before
embarkation of all persons suspected of being infested with
lice;
V) in the case of smallpox, to disinfect old clothes and
rags before they are packed or baled and to ensure that persons
from the infected area are protected against the disease before
embarkation;
e) if the Health Officer thinks fit, to secure the
examination of any clothing, bedding or other article of
personal use which belongs to or is in use or is intended for
-use by the crew or any person who proposes to embark or
is on board and which, in the opinion of the Health Officer
or an authorized officer may have been exposed to infection,
and to secure the disinfection or destruction of any such
clothing, bedding or other article of personal use;
(h) if the Health Officer thinks fit, to secure the
disinfection to the satisfaction of the Health Officer or an
authorized officer of any parts of the ship which, in the opinion
of the Health Officer or authorized officer, may be infected.
17. (1) Any person who-
(a) knowing or having reason to suspect that he is
suffering from an infectious disease embarks in or is con-
veyed in a ship leaving Antigua and Barbuda without the
permission of the Health Officer; or
( 6 ) embarks in a ship about to leave an infected area
of Antigua and Barbuda without submitting himself for
examination by the Health Officer, or exports or takes on
board any such ship any merchandise, stores, baggage,
personal effects or other articles from such area without
submitting them for examination, and, if required, disin-
sectization and disinfection by the Health Officer or an
authorized officer, or does any of such things as aforesaid
contrary to any prohibition or restriction which the Health
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Officer may impose with a view to preventing the spread
of infection,
shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
(2) Any master of a ship, ship owner or ship's agent, who
knowingly conveys or permits the conveyance in a ship from an
infected area of Antigua and Barbuda of any person or thing
contrary to any prohibition or restriction imposed by or under
regulations 15 or 16, shall be guilty of an offence against these
regulations.
18. The Health Officer or an authorized officer shall issue Bills of Health.
free of charge on request to any ship immediately prior to its
departure from Antigua and Barbuda a bill of health in the form
in Schedule D. When the ship is about to depart from an infected Schedule D.
area, particulars of the disease shall be entered in the bill of health.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AS TO SHIPS ARRIVING
AND IN PORT
19. The Health Officer or an authorized officer shall be General power to
entitled at any time to visit and inspect any ship arriving at or t:rt Ships)
lying in any port of Antigua and Barbuda (whether or not the
ship has come from a foreign port) and-
(a) in any circumstances which would justify the refusal
of pratique under these regulations in the case of ships arriving
from foreign ports, direct that the ship shall be deemed to
be in quarantine for the purposes of all, or any of these
regulations;
( 6 ) direct that any such action shall be taken as would
be appropriate under this regulations, in the like circumstances
in the case of ships arriving from foreign ports.
20. If the Health Officer is of opinion that the port of Power to send
Antigua and Barbuda at which a ship arrives is not suitably E$. to another
equipped to deal with it for the purposes of these regulations, he
may order the master of the ship to take the ship to any other
port of Antigua and Barbuda which is suitably equipped.
21. (1) A Health Officer may, in relation to any ship General powers.
arriving at or lying in any port of Antigua and Barbuda (whether
the ship has come from a foreign port or otherwise)-
(a) medically inspect the crew and passengers;
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(6) detain any such persons for medical examination;
( 6 ) prohibit any such persons from leaving the ship save
upon such specified conditions as appear to the Health Officer
,to be reasonably necessary to prevent the spread of infection;
(6) require the master to take or assist in taking such
steps as, in the opinion of the Health Officer, are reasonably
necessary for preventing the spread of infection by any such
person, for the destruction of vermin, and for the removal
of conditions in the ship likely to convey infection, including
conditions the existence of which might facilitate the
harbouring of vermin.
Duties of master. 22. Without prejudice to any other provisions of these
regulations, it shall be the duty of the master of every ship which
is in any port of Antigua and Barbuda forthwith to notify a Visiting
Officer (whether the information is requested or not) of any case
or suspected case of infectious disease in the ship and of any
circumstances on board which are likely to lead to infection or
the spread of infectious disease including in his notification
particulars as to the sanitary condition of the ship and the presence
of dead rats or mice or mortality or sickness among rats or mice
in the ship; and any master of a ship who contravenes or fails
to comply with these requirements shall be guilty of an offence
against these regulations.
Repetition of 23. A ship, which before arriving at a port of Antigua and
sanitary measures
not necessary. Barbuda, has already been subjected to sanitary measures to the
satisfaction of the Health Officer of that port, shall not again be
subjected to such measures unless some new incident has occurred
which so requires.
Saving in the 24. The master of a ship at or approaching a port of Antigua
case of ships
continuing and Barbuda who does not desire to submit to any requirements
voyage. of these regulations which may be applicable shall be at liberty
to put to sea without being subjected to control under these regu-
lations if he notifies the Health Officer of his intention:
Provided that if he desires to land goods, to disembark
passengers or to take on fuel, foodstuffs or water, the Health Officer
may grant him permission so to do subject to such conditions,
in conformity with the provisions of these regulations, as the Health
Officer thinks fit; and the master shall proceed accordingly and
put to sea with due despatch, and if he fails so to do he shall be
guilty of an offence against these regulations.
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25. (1) Any person who leaves any ship contrary to the Powers as to
provisions of these regulations may, without prejudice to any other ~ ~ ~ ' U & h ~ o a r d
liability, be apprehended by a Visiting Officer, authorized officer, or leave ships.
quarantine guard or member of any police force constituted by
law in Antigua and Barbuda and compelled to return to the ship
and, if he is not a passenger or member of the crew, may be dealt
with as a passenger.
(2) Any person who boards a ship contrary to any of the
provisions of these regulations may, if he is not a passenger or
member of the crew, be dealt with as a passenger.
26. A person on board a ship at a port of Antigua and Persons suffering
from infectious Barbuda who knows or has reason to suspect that he is suffering diseases not to
from an infectious disease shall in no case land without the land.
permission of the Health Officer, and any person who contravenes
this provision shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
27. (1) O n the arrival of a ship from a foreign port at an Deratisafion.
approved port, the Visiting Officer shall call for the deratisation
certificate or deratisation exemption certificate, and if such
certificate is not forthcoming or is no longer valid he shall inform
the Health Officer accordingly.
(2) The Health Officer shall then arrange for the ship to be
inspected to ascertain whether it is maintained in such a condition
that the number of rats on board is kept down to the minimum,
and if he is so satisfied, he shall sign and issue a deratisation
exemption certificate.
(3) If, after the ship has been inspected, the Health Officer
is of the opinion that it is not maintained in such a condition that
the number of rats on board is kept down to a minimum, he shall
order the ship to be deratised in a manner to be specified or
approved by him, and the master shall forthwith make
arrangements for the deratisation of the ship to be carried out
to the satisfaction of the Health Officer. After the deratisation has
been completed to his satisfaction, the Health Officer shall sign
and issue a deratisation certificate.
(4) When, in the opinion of the Health Officer, it is not
possible efficiently to carry out deratisation of the ship, because
of its cargo or for other reasons, he may cause the ship to work
in quarantine and he shall endorse the time-expired deratisation
or deratisation exemption certificate (if there is one) and make
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Ships arriving
with deratisation
certificates.
Form of
certificates
Schedule E.
Where ship
harbours rats but
deratisation not
possible.
General
deratisation
measures.
an entry in the bill of health to be issued to the ship before it
leaves port, to the effect that the ship was inspected and found
rat infested but that it was impraticable to carry out deratisation.
28. A ship arriving from a foreign port and carrying a valid
deratisation certificate or deratisation exemption certificate, whether
or not it has been granted pratique on arrival, may nevertheless
be inspected by or on behalf of the Health Officer, should the
Health Officer consider such inspection justified to determine the
extent of rat infestation. In exceptional cases and for well-founded
reasons, which shall be communicated in writing to the master
of the ship and to the Quarantine Authority, the Health Officer
may, if the port is an approved port, order the ship to be deratised,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in regulations 23 and
31 of these regulations, and, when deratisation has been completed
to his satisfaction, he shall issue a deratisation certificate.
29. Deratisation certificates and deratisation exemption
certificates shall be in the form prescribed in Schedule E.
30. When it is intended to take a ship, which is not infected
or suspected, alongside a jetty or quay and the Health Officer
has reason to believe that the ship harbours rats, he may, when
it is not possible or desirable to undertake deratisation of the ship,
order that it be fended off or moored away from the jetty or qLay,
to a distance of at least 6 feet, that all ropes and hawsers between
the ship and the shore are fitted with efficient rat-guards, that
between dusk and dawn gangways are drawn up or brilliantly
lighted, and that cargo is unloaded in such a manner as to prevent
rats gaining access to the shore.
31. (1) Whenever any ship is at a port of Antigua and
Barbuda, whether an approved port or not, and the Health Officer
has reason to believe that the number of rats on board is not kept
down to a minimum, he may require the owner, master or ship's
agent to take such steps, under the direction and to the satisfac-
tion of the Health Officer, as are practicable, in the opinion of
the Health Officer, to secure complete or partial deratisation:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply to ships which
are in possession of valid deratisation certificates or valid
deratisation exemption certificates.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (I),
masters or owners of coastal vessels and harbour lighters may be
required by the Quarantine Authority to deratise them in such
manner and at such intervals as the Quarantine Authority may
direct, and if any requirement under this paragraph is not complied
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with, the master and owner shall be guilty of an offence against
these regulations.
PART VII
32. Without the general or special permission of the Health Merchandise, kc.
not to be put on Officer, but subject to the provisions of regulation 33, no ,hip in
merchandise, stores, bagcage, personal effects or other articles shall quarantine .
be taken off'or put on board a ship which has not been granted
pratique, and any person who contravenes this provision shall be
guilty of an offence against these regulations. -
33. The entry of merchandise and baggage arriving at a Entry of
suitably equipped port of Antigua and Barbuda, shall in all cases ~ a ~ ~ , " ~ , " ~ ~ , " ^ d
be permitted, but the following measures may be applied where, permitted subject
in the opinion of the Health Officer, there is danger of infection ~ e ~ ~ r ~ ~
from a specified infectious disease-
(a) in the case of plague, disinsectisation or disinfection
of recently used bedding and clothing and prohibition of the
unloading of merchandise from an infected area which is likely
to harbour rats or fleas unless adequate precautions to prevent
the escape of rats and fleas and to ensure their destruction
are taken;
( 6 ) in the case of cholera, disinfection of recently used
bedding and clothing and prohibition of the importation of
fresh fish, shellfish and vegetables;
(c) in the case of typhus, disinsectisation of recently used
bedding and clothing and of rags not carried as merchandise
in bulk;
(4 in the case of smallpox, disinfection of recently used
bedding and clothing and of rags not carried as merchandise
in bulk.
34. The Health Officer or an authorized ofiicer may order Destruction of
clothes and other articles of small value (including rags not carried ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ; o ~ ; r Y
as merchandise in bulk) which he considers likely to convey a infections.
specified infectious disease to be destroyed.
35. Nothing in these regulations shall render liable to Saving of mails.
detention disinfection or destruction or shall affect any article
forming part of any mail (other than parcel mail) conveyed under
the authority of the postal administration of Antigua and Barbuda
or of any other Government.
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Certificates. 36. When merchandise, stores, baggage, personal effects
or other articles have been subjected to any measures prescribed
in this Part of these regulations, the Health Officer or an authorized
officer shall issue free of charge on request by the shipowner, master
or ship's agent, a certificate setting out the measures taken and
the reasons therefor.
PART VIII
Places for 37. When any place is in use for observation or isolation
observation and
isolation of purposes, no person shall enter or leave the place and no article
persons. shall be taken to or removed from the place except with the general
or special permission of the Quarantine Authority or the Health
Officer or otherwise than on such conditions as the Quarantine
Authority or the Health Oficer may generally or specially impose.
Power of Health 38. (1 ) Without prejudice to any other powers conferred
Officer to order
isolation or by these regulations, any person, within 14 days after his arrival
observation or in Antigua and Barbuda, who, in the opinion of the Health
surveillance. Officer-
(a) is suffering from or suspected to be suffering from
a specified infectious disease, shall be placed in isolation; or
( b ) is suffering from an infectious disease, other than
a specified infectious disease, shall be liable to be placed in
isolation at the discretion of the Health Officer; or
(c ) has been exposed to the risk of infection by any
specified infectious disease, may, at the discretion of the
Health Officer, be placed under observation or surveillance
during the remainder of the period of incubation; or
(6) has been exposed to risk of infection by acy infectious
disease other than a specified infectious disease, may, at the
discretion of the Health Officer, be placed under surveillance
as provided in regulation 14.
(2) When any person arriving in Antigua and Barbuda has,
in the o~ in ion of the Health Officer. been ex~osed to infection
from yellow fever within the previous 6 days, then, unless the
Health Officer otherwise directs or such person is immune from
the disease, the Health Officer shall order him to be kept under
observation under Aedes-free conditions for 6 days or the remainder
of the 6 days, from the last day on which he was exposed to the
infection. An inoculated person who is not yet regarded as immune
shall be kept under observation for a period not exceeding 6 days
from the last day of possible exposure to infection.
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39. (1) Any person placed under observation or surveillance Duties of persons
shall- under observation or
(a) furnish all such information as may reasonably be SUrVei'lance.
required to the Health Officer or other authorized officer and
shall comply with the orders and instructions of such Health
Officer or authorized officer;
(b) undergo such medical inspections and examinations
(including bacteriological examinations) as the Health Officer
may require and submit himself and his personal effects or
other articles to disinfection and other measures as the Health
Officer may order.
(2) Any person placed under surveillance, who is so required
by the Health Officer, shall deposit in the hands of the Health
Officer a sum fixed by such Officer (not exceeding nine dollars
and sixty cents) for which a receipt shall be given by the Health
Officer. Such deposit shall be declared forfeited (without prejudice
to any other liability) by the Quarantine Authority if the person
under surveillance neglects to comply with the conditions of
surveillance during the period thereof. At the end of such period
the deposit, if not forfeited, shall be refunded by the Health Officer
on delivery of the receipt given by him.
(3) Any sum forfeited under this paragraph shall be forthwith
paid into the general revenue of Antigua and Barbuda.
(4) Any person in charge of a child or other person under
disability shall be responsible for the compliance of such child or
person with the requirements and provisions of this regulation.
40. Any person under observation or surveillance who Isolation of
shows symptoms of an infectious disease may, if the Health Officer f : ~ ~ ~ : t ~ o " , d " o ~
so orders, be placed in isolation. surveillance.
41. In cases where surveillance is imposed under these Surveillance
regulations it may be replaced by observation in any of the following :=adti?.
circumstances-
(a) when it is impossible to exercise surveillance with
adequate efficiency;
(6) if the risk of the introduction of infection into Antigua
and Barbuda is deemed exceptionally serious;
(c) if the Health Officer is satisfied that the person who
has been or should be subjected to surveillance has not
complied or is not likely to comply with the conditions of
surveillance.
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Failure of person 42. (1) Any person under surveillance who, on account
under
surveillance to of illness, is unable to report for medical inspection shall
report for immediately cause the Health OGcer responsible for his surveillance
medical
inspection.
to be informed of his illness and its nature and the Health Officer
shall forthwith take steps to determine whether or not such person
is suffering from an infectious disease.
(2) When any person under surveillance fails to report for
medical inspection on the appointed day, the Health Officer
responsible for his surveillance shall forthwith cause search to be
made for him, and if his failure to report for medical inspection
is due to illness, the Health Officer shall immediately visit him.
(3) Any person under surveillance who intends to proceed
to an address other than that originally given by him shall
immediately notify the Health Officer responsible for his
surveillance of the new address.
Change of place 43. The Health Officer responsible for the surveillance of
during
surveillance. a person who is about to proceed to some other place before the
period of surveillance has ended shall inform the health authorities
of the place to which such person is proceeding of his impending
arrival and address there, and of the period of surveillance still
uncompleted, and shall also instruct the person under surveillance
as to whom he shall report for medical inspection when he arrives
at such other place.
Release from 44. As soon as any person placed under observation has
observation. undergone the observation necessary in his case, he shall be released
from observation by the Health Officer.
Offences. 45. Any person other than a person acting in the execution
of these regulations who contravenes or fails to comply with
regulation 37, or any condition imposed thereunder, or with any
of the provisions of regulations 39 or 42, shall be guilty of an
offence against these regulations.
Persons 46. Any person who, contrary to these regulations, leaves
improperly
leaving places any place in use for observation or isolation purposes may, without
approved for prejudice to any other liability, be apprehended by a Health Off~cer
observation or or an authorized officer or a member of any police force constituted
isolation. by law in Antigua and Barbuda and taken back to such place.
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47. It shall be the duty of the Quarantine Authority to cause Quarantine
to be compiled and kept up to date a list of infected areas, including ; f , " ~ , " ~ ~ O ~
ports and seaboards which serve infected areas, and to cause all infected areas
visiting Officers to be supplied with copies of the list and of all ;:.'&$zerS
amendments thereto. with copies.
48. The Quarantine Authorit; shall prepare lists of ports List of ports
in Antigua and Barbuda which are equipped from a sanitary point ~ h p , " ~ $ : ~ ~
of view to deal with ships arriving in Antigua and Barbuda in certain cases.
specified circumstances.
49. The Quarantine Authority shall be responsible for the Information
collection and transmission, directly or through the appropriate ~ ~ , " ' ~ ~ i ~ and
channels, of all information required to be collected and transmitted Agreements.
under the Convention or under any Agreement to which the
government is a party relating to quarantine matters.
50. (1) Where the master of any ship is required by or Charges for
in pursuance of these regulations to carry out any measures with measures
a view to reducing the danger or preventing the spread of infection,
the Quarantine Authority may, at the request of the master, and,
if thought fit, at his cost, cause any such requirement to be complied
with instead of enforcing the requirement against the master. When
the Quarantine Authority causes any such requirement to be
complied with at the cost of the master, the Quarantine Authority
may require the amount of the charge for the work or a part thereof
to be paid to or deposited with the Quarantine Authority before
the work is undertaken.
(2) The amount of the charge for any work so to be under-
taken by the Quarantine Authority shall be such reasonable sum
as, to the exclusion of any charge or claim in respect of profit,
represents the actudl or estimated cost to be incurred by the
Quarantine Authority in undertaking the work, so, however, that
it shall not exceed the sum of ninety-six dollars unless notice of
the proposed charge has been given to the master before the work
is undertaken.
(3) All such charges may be recovered against the master,
shipowner or his agent.
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Charges. 5 1. The charges to be made in respect of persons under-
going quarantine, isolation or observation, and the incidence of
such charges, shall be such as are provided for in rules made under
the Act:
Provided that no charge shall be made for any child under
three years of age, and for any child over three years of age and
under ten years of age half the prescribed charges shall be payable
and shall be payable by and recoverable from the person in charge
of the child.
Further 52. (1) All expenses and charges referred to in these regu-
provisions expenses and as to lations shall be payable to the Quarantine Authority.
charges.
(2) Where any expenses or charges are payable by the master
of a ship, the Harbour Master or any customs officer authorized
by him, may refuse to clear the ship until all liability in respect
of the expenses or charges has been discharged.
General duty to 53. (1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, the
comply with
orders Quarantine Authority, the Health Officer and any authorized
instructions and officer may give such orders and instructions and impose such
conditions. conditions and take such action as they may deem desirable for
the purposes of carrying these regulations into effect.
(2) Every person to whom these regulations apply shall comply
with all such orders, instructions and conditions, and shall furnish
all such information as the Quarantine Authority, Health Officer
or authorized officer may reasonably require (including information
as to his name, destination and address) and every person who
has for the time being the custody or charge of a child or other
person who is under disability shall comply with any orders,
instructions or conditions so given, made or imposed and shall
furnish all such information as aforesaid in respect of such child
or other person.
Certificates as to 54. (1) Whenever the master, the shipowner or his agent
sanitary measures
taken. so demands, the Health Officer shall furnish him with a free
certificate stating the sanitary measures which have been applied
to the ship and specifying the reason why they have been applied.
(2) Passengers who have been subjected to sanitary measures
shall be entitled to a free certificate from the Health Officer
indicating the date of their arrival and the measures to which they
and their baggage have been subjected.
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SCHEDULE A R . 4
(To be rendered by the masters of ships arriving from ports
outside Antigua and Barbuda).
Before answering questions please read instructions
overleaf.
Port of ............................................... Date ................
.............. ........ ....................... Name of Vessel From To
.......... Nationality .................................. Master's Name
................................................. Net Registered Tonnage
...... Deratisation or Certificate ........................... Dated
Deratisation 1 Exemption Issued at .............................................
No. of Cabin .................. No. of ................. I Passengers Deck ................... Crew ...................
List of ports of call from commencement of voyage with dates
................................................................. of departure
Health Questions Answer
Yes or No
1. Has there been on board during the
voyage* any case or suspected case of plague,
cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or small pox?
Insert particulars in the Schedule hereto. .................
2. Has plague occurred or been suspected
amongst the rats or mice on board during the
voyage*, or has there been an unusual mortality
amongst them? .................
3. Has any person died on board during the
voyage* otherwise than as a result of accident?
Insert particulars in Schedule hereto. .................
4. Is there on board or has there been during
the voyage* any case of illness which you suspect
to be of an infectious nature? Insert particulars in
Schedule hereto. .................
* I f more than six weeks have elapsed since the voyage begun, it will suffice
to give particulars for the last six weeks.
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5. Is there any sick person on board now?
Insert particulars in Schedule hereto. .................
Note: In the absence of a surgeon, the master
shopld regard the following symptoms as ground
for suspecting the existence of infectious disease:
fever accompanied by prostration or persisting for
several days, or attended with glandular swellings,
or any acute skin rash or eruption with or without
fever; severe diarrhoea or diarrhoea with symptoms
of collapse; jaundice accompanied by fever.
6. Are you aware of any other condition on
board which may lead to infection or the spread
of infectious disease? .................
I hereby declare that the particulars and answers to the
questions given in this Declaration of Health (including the
Schedule) are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
Sgd .............................................
Master
Date: ............................. Countersigned .....................
Ship's Surgeon
Particulars of every case of illness or death occurring
on board.
*State whether recovered; still ill; died.
f State whether still on board; landed at (give name of port);
buried at sea.
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Instructions
The Master of a ship coming from a port outside Antigua
and Barbuda must ascertain the state of health of all persons on
board, and fill in and sign the Declaration of Health in the foregoing
pages.
The master should send an International Quarantine message
either direct to the Visiting Officer or through the agent. The
message may be in "clear" or in "code" and must be sent within
the time specified in the Code.
The message must contain such of the items as are appropriate
of the Standard Quarantine Messages (included in the Medical
Section of the 1931 Intercolonial Code of Signals (pages 229 to
232 British edition)).
If the ship is not fitted with wireless, the appropriate signal
must be hoisted on arrival.
The master should take all steps necessary to ensure that no
persons other than a pilot and his leadsman shall board or leave
the vessel without the permission of the Health Officer until
pratique has been granted.
SCHEDULE B R. 5
WIRELESS MESSAGES* - ITEM OF INFORMATION
Item I
The following is an International Quarantine Message from
vessel indicated of port indicated which expects to arrive at time
indicated on date indicated.
Item I1
My port of departure (first port of loading) and my last port
of call were as indicated by the immediately following groups.
* For notes on the sending of a standard Quarantine Message see page
2 2 9 ofthe British edition ofthe 1931 International Code of signals.
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Item I11
No case of infectious disease, or of sickness suspected to be
of an infectious nature, has occurred on board during the last 15
day*.
Number indicated cases of infectious disease(s) indicated have
occurred during the last 15 days.
Item IV
I have no other case of sickness on board.
I have number indicated other cases of sickness on board.
Item V
No deaths from sickness infectious or otherwise have occur-
red on board during the voyage.
Number indicated deaths from sickness infectious or other-
wise have occurred on board during the voyage.
Item VI
I have a ship's surgeon on board.
I have no ship's surgeon on board.
Item VII
I do not wish to disembark any sick.
I wish to disembark number indicated sick, suffering from
disease(s) indicated.
Item VIII
My crew consists of number indicated, and I have no
passengers on board.
My crew consists of number indicated, and I have number
indicated passengers.
Item IX
I do not propose to disembark any passengers.
I propose to disembark number indicated passengers of class
indicated.
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SCHEDULE C R . 6
Ships must show one of the following signals when coming
within the limits of a port and until free pratique is granted.
By day (i.e., between sunrise and sunset):
(i) "Q" signifying "my ship is healthy and I request
free pratique" .
(ii) "Q" flag over first substitute (QQJ signifying "my
ship is suspect, that is to say, I have had a case or
cases of infectious disease more than five days ago
or there has been unusual mortality among rats on
board".
(iii) "Q" flag over "L" flag (QL) signifying "my ship
is infected, that is to say, I have had a case or cases
of infectious disease less than five days ago".
The day signal shall be shown at the masthead or where it
can best be seen.
By night: Red light over white light, signifying "I have not
received free pratique" .
The lights should be not more than six feet apart and in a
vertical line one over the other.
The night signal shall be shown at the peak or other
conspicuous place where it can best be seen.
SCHEDULE D R . 18
(This document is the property of the ship and is not
to be retained by the port authorities)
I hereby certify that the (name of ship) .......................
commanded by (name of Master) .....................................
entered this port on the (date) .........................................
and was admitted to free pratique-on arrival-after subjection to
the following measures ...................................................
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I fu
the port
cholera,
rther certify that at the time of granting this Bill of Health
and its vicinity are free from plague (human and rodent),
yellow fever, typhus and small pox, except as follows-
..................................................................................
Port of ........................... Signed ...............................
Date .............................. Title of Officer ....................
Note: The following numbers of
cases of other infectious diseases
were notified during the week
ending ...............................
Name of Disease Number of Cases
SCHEDULE E RR. 2 and 29
Given under Article 28 of the International Sanitary Convention
of Paris, 1926.
(NOT T O BE TAKEN AWAY BY PORT
AUTHORITIES)
Date .............................. Port of ..............................
THIS CERTIFICATE records the ( exemption*
inspection and ) deratisation*
\
at this port on the above date
of the S.S. ..................... of .............. net tons, from .......
In accordance with the Quarantine Laws and Regulations of
Antigua and Barbuda.
*empty
At the time the holds were
. ..... *laden with tons of
.............................. cargo*
('Strike out the unnecessary indications.)
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OBSERVATIONS: (In the case of exemption, state here the
measures taken for maintaining the vessel in such a condition that
the rat population would be reduced to a minimum.)
.........................................
Seal, Name, Qualification and
Signature of the Health Officer.
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(a) DERATISATION
(a) DERATISATION
Shelter Deck Space ......
Bunker Space . . . . . . . . . . . .
Engine Room and Shaft
Alley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Forepeak and Storeroom
Afterpeak and Storerooms
. . . . . . . . . . . . Lifeboats
1
Compartments (6)
Charts and Wireless Rooms
Galley and Bakery . . . . . . . . .
Pantries . . . . . . . . . . . .
Provision Storerooms ...
Quarters (crew) ......
Quarters (Officers) ......
Quarters (Cabin Passengers)
Quarters (Steerage) ......
I I I
(a) Strike out the unnecessary indications.
(b) In case any of the compartments enumerated are not present on the
vessel this fact must be mentioned.
(c) Old or recent evidence of excreta, runs or cutting.
Rat Indica-
tions (c)
Rat Harbourage
discovered corrected
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(d) None. Slight. Moderate or Pronounced.
(e) State the weight of Sulphur or of Cyanide sales or quantity of H.C.N.
used.
By fumigation
Fumigant ..................................
.......................... Hours exposure
Cubic feet Quantity Rats
space used (e) recovered
(5) (6) (7)
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Seal, Name, Qualification and Signature of the
Health Officer.
By catching, trapping
or
Traps set
or poisons
put out
(8)
poisoning
Rats
recovered
(9)
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THE APPENDIX
(See definition of
Convention Reg. 2)
Extracts from the International Sanitary Convention skned at Paris
on the 21st June, 1926.
It rests with the authority of the country of destination to
decide in what manner and at what place disinfection shall be
carried out and what methods shall be adopted to secure the
destruction of rats or insects (fleas, lice, mosquitoes, &c.). These
operations shall be performed in such a manner as to injure articles
as little as ~ossible. Clothes and other articles of small value.
including rags not carried as merchandise in bulk, may be destroyed
by fire.
It is the dutv of each State to settle auestions relative to the
payment of compensation for any damage caused by disinfection,
deratisation and disinsectisation, or by the destruction of the articles
referred to above.
If, on account of these measures, charges are levied by the
sanitary authority, either directly or indirectly through a company
or an individual, the rates of these charges shall be in accordance
with a tariff published in advance and so drawn up that the State
or the sanitary authority may not, on the whole, derive any profit
from its application.
SECTION IV. Measures at Ports and Marine Frontiers
( A ) Plague
Infected Ships. A ship shall be regarded as "infectedw-
( 1 ) If it has a case of human plague on board;
(2) O r if a case of human plague broke out more than
six days after embarkation;
(3) O r if plague infected rats are found on board.
Suspected Ship. A ship shall be regarded as "suspected"-
( 1 ) If a case of human plague broke out on board in
the first six days after embarkation;
(2) O r if investigations regarding rats have shown the
existence of an unusual mortality without determining the
cause thereof.
The ship shall continue to be regarded as suspected until it
has been subjected to the measures prescribed by this Convention
at a suitably equipped port.
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Healthy Ship. A ship shall be regarded as "healthy" not-
withstanding its having come from an infected port, if there has
been no human or rat plague on board either at the time of
departure, or during the voyage, or on arrival, and the
investigations regarding rats have not shown the existence of an
unusual mortality.
Plague infected ships shall undergo the following measures-
(1) Medical inspection;
(2) The sick shall immediately be disembarked and
isolated;
(3) All persons who have been in contact with the sick
and those whom the port sanitary authority have reason to
consider suspect shall be disembarked if possible. They may
be subjected to observation or surveillance, * or to observation
followed by surveillance, provided that the total duration of
these measures does not exceed six days from the time of
arrival of the ship. It rests with the sanitary authority of the
port after taking into consideration the date of the last case,
the condition of the ship and the local possibilities, to apply
that one of these measures which seems to them preferable.
During the same period the crew may be prevented from
leaving the ship except on duty notified to the sanitary
authority;
(4) Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of the sanitary
authority, are infected shall be disinfected and, if necessary,
disinfected;
(5) The parts of the ship which have been occupied by
persons suffering from plague or which, in the opinion of
the sanitary authority, are infected shall be disinsected and,
if necessary, disinfected;
(6) The sanitary authority may require deratisation
before the discharge of the cargo, if they are of the opinion,
having regard to the nature of the cargo and the way in which
it is loaded, that it is possible to effect a total destruction
of rats before discharge. In this case, the ship may not be
subjected to a new deratisation after discharge. In other cases
the complete destruction of the rodents shall be effected on
board when the holds are empty. In the case of ships in ballast,
this process shall be carried out as soon as possible before
taking cargo.
* Persons under obsnuation or surveillance shall give facilities for all clinical or
bacteriological investigations which are considered necessary by the sanitary authori4.
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Deratisation shall be carried out so as to avoid, as far as possi-
ble, damage to the ship and cargo (if any). The operation must
not last longer than twenty-four hours. Any charges made in respect
of these operations of deratisation and any question of compensa-
tion for damage shall be determined in accordance with the pro-
visions of Article 18.
If a ship is to discharge a part of its cargo only, and if the
port authorities consider that it is impossible to carry out com-
plete deratisation, the said ship may remain in the port for the
time required to discharge that part of its cargo, provided that
all precautions, including isolation, are taken to the satisfaction
of the sanitary authority to prevent rats from passing from the
ship to the shore, either during unloading or otherwise.
The discharge of cargo shall be carried out under the control
of the sanitary authority, who shall take all measures neccessary
to prevent the staff employed on his duty from becoming infected.
This staff shall be subjected to observation or to surveillance for
a period not exceeding six days from the time when they have
ceased to work at the unloading of the ship.
Plague-suspected ships shall undergo the measures specified in
(I), (4), (5) and (6) of Article 25.
In addition, the crew and passengers may be subjected to
surveillance, which shall not exceed six days reckoned from the
date of arrival of the ship. The crew may be prevented during
the same period from leaving the ship except on duty notified to
the sanitary authority.
Healthy Ships.-Ships free from plague shall be given free
pratique immediately, with the reservation that the sanitary
authority of the port of arrival may prescribe the following measures
with regard to them-
(1) Medical inspection to determine whether the ship
comes within the definition of a healthy ship;
(2) Destruction of rats on board under the conditions
specified in (6) of Article 25, in exceptional cases and for well-
founded reasons. which shall be communicated in writina to
the captain of the ship;
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(3) The crew and passengers may be subjected to
surveillance during a period which shall not exceed six days
reckoned from the date on which the ship left the infected
port. The crew may be prevented during the same period
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from leaving the ship except on duty notified to the sanitary
authority.
All ships, except those employed in national coastal service,
shall be periodically deratised or be permanently so maintained
that any rat population is kept down to the minimum. In the first
case they shall receive Deratisation Certzficates, and in the second
Deratisation Exemption Certificates.
Governments shall make known through the Office Interna-
tional d'Hygiene Publique those of their ports possessing the equip-
ment and personnel necessary for the deratisation of ships.
A Deratisation Certificate or a Deratisation Exemption Certificate shall
be issued only by the sanitary authorities of ports specified above.
Every such certificate shall be valid for six months, but this period
may be extended by one month in the case of a ship proceeding
to its home port.
If no valid certificate is produced, the sanitary authority at
the ports mentioned in the second paragraph of this Article may
after inquiry and inspection-
( a ) themselves carry out deratisation of the vessel, or
cause such operations to be carried out under their direction
and control. On the completion of these operations to their
satisfaction they shall issue a dated Deratisation Certz$cate. They
shall decide in each case the technique which should be
employed to secure the practical extermination of rats on
board, but details of the deratising process applied and of
the number of rats destroyed shall be entered on the certificate.
Destruction of rats shall be carried out so as to avoid as far
as possible damage to the ship and cargo (if any). The
operation must not last longer than twenty-four hours. In
the case of ships in ballast the process shall be carried out
before taking cargo. Any charges made in respect of these
operations of deratisation, and any question of compensation
for damage shall be determined in accordance with the
provisions of Article 18;
( b ) issue a dated Deratisation Exemption Certificate if they
are satisfied that the ship is maintained in such a condition
that the rat population is reduced to a minimum. The reasons
justifying the issue of such a certificate shall be set out in
the certificate.
Deratisation and deratisation exemption certificates shall be
drawn up as far as possible in a uniform manner. Model certificates
shall be prepared by the Office International d'Hygiene Publique.
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(B) Cholera
Infected Ship. - A ship shall be regarded as infected if there is
a case of cholera on board, or it there has been a case of cholera
during the five days previous to the arrival of the ship in port.
Suspected Ship-A ship shall be regarded as suspected if there
has been a case of cholera at the time of departure or during the
voyage, but no fresh case in the five days previous to arrival. The
ship shall continue to be regarded as suspected until it has been
subjected to the measures prescribed by this Convention.
Healthy Ship. - A ship shall be considered "halthy" if, although
arriving from an infected port or having on board persons
proceeding from an infected local area, there has been no case
of cholera either at the time of departure, during the voyage, or
on arrival.
Cases presenting the clinical symptoms of cholera, in which
no cholera vibrios have been found or in which vibrios not strictly
conforming to the character of cholera vibrios have been found
shall be subject to all measures required in the case of cholera.
Germ carriers discovered on the arrival of a ship shall be
submitted after disembarkation to all the obligations which may
be imposed in such a case by the laws of the country of arrival
on its own nationals.
ARTICLE 30
Cholera Infected Ships. -In the case of cholera, "infecteed ships
shall undergo the following rneasures-
(1) Medical inspection;
(2) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and
isolated;
(3) The crew and passengers may be disembarked and
either be kept under observation or subjected to surveillance
during a period not exceeding five days reckoned from the
date of arrival of the ship;
However, persons who can show that they have been
protected against cholera by vaccination effected within the
period of the previous six months, excluding the last six days
thereof, may be subjected to surveillance, but not to
observation;
(4) Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and other articles, including food-stuffs, which, in
the opinion of the sanitary authority of the port, have been
recently contaminated shall be disinfected;
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(5) The parts of the ship that have been occupied by
persons infected with cholera or that the sanitary authority
regard as infected shall be disinfected;
(6) Unloading shall be carried out under the supervision
of the sanitary authority, which shall take all measures
necessary to prevent the infection of the staff engaged in
unloading. This staff shall be subjected to observation or to
surveillance which may not exceed five days from the time
when they ceased unloading;
(7) When the drinking water stored on board is suspected
it shall be emptied out after disinfection and replaced, after
disinfection of the tanks, by a supply of wholesome drinking
water;
(8) The sanitary authority may prohibit the emptying
of water ballast in port without previous disinfection if it has
been taken in at an infected port;
(9) The emptying or discharge of human dejecta, as well
as the waste waters of the ship, into the waters of the port
may be forbidden, unless they have been previously
disinfected.
Choha Suspected Ships. -In the case of cholera, "suspected" ships
shall undergo the measures prescribed in (1), (4), (5), (7) , (8) and
(9) of Article 30.
The crew and passengers may be subjected to surveillance
during a period which shall not exceed five days reckoned from
the date of arrival of the ship. It is recommended that the crew
be prevented during the same period from leaving the ship except
on duty notified to the sanitary authority.
Clinical Cholera. If the ship has been declared infected or
suspected on account only of a case on board presenting the clinical
features of cholera, and two bacteriological examinations, made
with an interval of not less than 24 hours between them, have
not revealed the presence of cholera or other suspicious vibrios,
the ship shall be considered healthy.
Healthy Ships.-In the case of cholera, "healthy" ships shall
be given pratique immediately.
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The sanitary authority of the port of arrival may prescribe
as regards these ships the measures specified in (I), (7) , (8) and
(9) of Article 30.
The crew and passengers may be subjected to surveillance
during a period which shall not exceed five days reckoned from
the date of arrival of the ship. The crew may be prevented during
the same period from leaving the ship except on duty notified to
the sanitary authority.
Since anti-cholera vaccination is a method of proved efficacy
in staying cholera epidemics, and consequently in lessening the
likelihood of the spread of the disease, sanitary administrations
are recommended to employ in the largest measure possible and
as often as practicable, specific vaccination in cholera foyers and
to grant certain advantages as regards restrictive measures to
persons who have elected to be vaccinated.
( C ) Yellow Fever
ARTICLE 35
Infected Ship. A ship shall be regarded as infected if there is
a case of yellow fever on board, or if there was one at the time
of departure or during the voyage.
Suspected Ship. A ship shall be regarded as suspected if, having
had no case of yellow fever, it arrives after a voyage of less than
six days from an infected port or from a port in close relation
with an endemic centre of yellow fever, or it arrives after a voyage
of more than six days and there is reason to believe that it may
transport adult stegomyia (aedes aegypti) emanating from the said
port.
Healthy Ship. A ship shall be regarded as healthy, notwith-
standing its having come from an infected port, if on arriving
after a voyage of more than six days it has had no case of yellow
fever on board and either there is no reason to believe that it
transports adult stegomyia or it is proved to the satisfaction of the
authority of the port of arrival-
(a) That the ship, during its stay in the port of departure,
was moored at a distance of at least 200 metres from the in-
habited shore and at such a distance from harbour vessels
(pontoons) as to make the access of stegomyia improbable;
( 6 ) O r that the ship, at the time of departure, was
effectively fumigated in order to destroy mosquitoes.
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Yellow Fever Infected Ships. Ships infected with yellow fever
shall undergo the following measures-
(1) Medical inspection;
(2) The sick shall be disembarked, and those of them
whose illness has not lasted more than five days shall be isolated
in such a manner as to prevent infection of mosquitoes;
(3) The other persons who disembark shall be kept under
observation or surveillance during a period which shall not
exceed six days reckoned from the time of disembarkation;
(4) The ship shall be moored at least 200 metres from
the inhabited shore and at such a distance from the harbour
boats (pontoons) as will render the access of stegomyia
improbable;
(5) The destruction of mosquitoes in all phases of growth
shall be carried out on board, as far as possible before discharge
of cargo. If discharge is carried out before the destruction
of mosquitoes, the personnel employed shall be subjected to
observation or to surveillance for a period not exceeding six
days from the time when they ceased unloading.
Yellow Fever Suspected Ships. Ships suspected of yellow fever may
' be subjected to the measures specified in (I) , (3), (4) and (5) of
Article 36.
Nevertheless, if the voyage has lasted less than six days and
if the ship fulfils the conditions specified in paragraphs (a ) or (b)
of Article 35 relating to healthy ships, the ship shall be subjected
only to the measures prescribed in Article 36 (1) and (3) and to
fumigation.
When thirty days have been completed after the departure
of the ship from the infected port, and no case has occurred during
the voyage, the ship may be granted free pratique subject to
preliminary fumigation should the sanitary authority consider this
to be necessary.
ARTICLE 38
Healthy Ships. Healthy Ships shall be granted free pratique
after medical inspection.
The measures prescribed in Articles 36 and 37 concern only
those regions in which stegomyia exist, and they shall be applied
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with due regard to the climatic conditions prevailing in such regions
and to the stegomyia index.
In other regions they shall be applied to the extent considered
necessary by the sanitary authority.
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The masters of ships which have touched at ports infected
with yellow fever are specially advised to cause a search to be
made for mosquitoes and their larvae during the voyage and to
secure their systematic destruction in all accessible parts of the
ship, particularly in the store rooms, galleys, boiler rooms, water
tanks and other places specially likely to harbour stegomyia.
Ships which, during the voyage have had, or at the time of
their arrival, have, a case of typhus on board, may be subjected
to the following measures-
(1) Medical inspection;
(2) The sick shall immediately be disembarked, isolated
and deloused;
(3) Other persons reasonably suspected to harbour lice,
or to have been exposed to infection, shall also be deloused,
and may be subjected to surveillance during a period which
shall be specified, but which in any event should never exceed
twelve days, reckoned from the date of delousing;
(4) Bedding which has been used, linen, wearing apparel
and other articles which the sanitary authority consider to
be infected shall be disinfected;
(5) The parts of the ship which have been occupied by
persons ill with typhus and which the sanitary authority regard
as infected shall be disinsected.
The ship shall immediately be given free pratique.
It rests with each Government to take, after disem-
barkation, the measures which they consider appropriate to ensure
the surveillance of persons who arrive on a ship which has had
no case of typhus on board, but who have left a local area where
typhus is epidemic within the previous twelve days.
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(E) Smallpox
Ships which have had, or have a case of smallpox on board
either during the voyage or at the time of arrival may be subjected
to the following measures-
(1) Medical inspection;
(2) The sick shall immediately be disembarked and
isolated;
(3) Other persons reasonably suspected to have been
exposed to infection on board, and who, in the opinion of
the sanitary authority are not sufficiently protected by recent
vaccination, or by a previous attack of smallpox, may be
subjected to vaccination or to surveillance, or to vaccination
followed by surveillance, the period of surveillance being
specified according to the circumstances, but in any event
not exceeding fourteen days, reckoned from the date of arrival
of the sip;
(4) Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and other articles which the sanitary authority consider
to have been recently infected shall be disinfected;
(5) Only the parts of the ship which have been occupied
by persons ill with smallpox and which the sanitary authority
regards as infected shall be disinfected.
The ship shall immediately be given free pratique.
It rests with each Government to take, after disembarkation,
the measures which they consider appropriate to ensure the
surveillance of persons who are not protected by vaccination, and
who arrive on a ship which has had no case of smallpox on board,
but who have left a local area, where smallpox is epidemic within
the previous fourteen days.
SECOND SCHEDULE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine (Air) Short
Regulations.
2. In these Regulations- Interpretation.
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"Aedes" means Aedes aegypti and any potential mosquito
vectors of yellow fever;
"aerodrome". "aircraft" and "commander" have the
meanings assigned to them in section 2 of the Act;'
"aircraft coming from an infected area" in relation to an
aircraft arriving at an aerodrome or other place means
an aircraft-
(a) which left a plague, cholera, typhus
or smallpox infected area within the period of
incubation of those diseases;
(b) which left a yellow fever infected or
endemic area, or a locality in close relation with
any such area, within a period of six days
immediately preceding its arrival, or after a longer
period if there is reason to believe that the aircraft
may be carrying adult mosquitoes emanating from
the said area or locality;
"authorised aerodrome" means an aerodrome for the time
being approved as a customs aerodrome for the purpose
of the laws relating to customs;
"authorised officer" means a person authorised to act as such
in the case in question by virtue of an order made under
regulation 3;
"the Convention" means the International Sanitary
Convention for Aerial Navigation signed at the Hague
on the 12th of April 1933 (and any amendments thereto);
"crew" includes any person having duties on board an aircraft
in connection with the flying or the safety of the flight
of the aircraft, or employed on board in any way in
the service of the aircraft, the passengers, or the cargo;
"day" means an interval of twenty-four hours;
"endemic area" means an area in which the Health Officer
has reason to believe that yellow fever exists in a form
recognizable clinically, biologically or pathologically;
"foreign" means situate outside Antigua and Barbuda;
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"Health Officer" means the appropriate officer appointed
as such under section 3 of the Act, and includes a medical
practitioner acting under the direction of the Quarantine
Authority or a Health Officer for the purpose of
executing these regulations or any of them;
' " ~mmune", in relation to yellow fever, means that the person
in question produces a certificate to the satisfaction of
the Health Officer issued by a medical officer or
institution recognised by the Quarantine Authority-
(a) to the effect that the bearer has been
inoculated for the first time more than ten days
and less than four years previously; or
( 6 ) to the effect that he has been reinoculated
within the past four years; or
(c) to the effect that he has recovered from
an attack of yellow fever and that his blood contains
immune bodies against yellow fever as proved by
a test carried out by an institution regularly
carrying out biological tests for yellow fever;
"infected" in relation to an aircraft arriving at an aerodrome
or other place, means that the aircraft has on, board
a case or suspected case of plague, yellow fever, typhus
or smallpox, or a case presenting clinical signs of cholera,
or which has had such a case or suspected case on board
and has not since been subjected to the measures
prescribed by these regulations;
"infected area" means a local area in which the Health Officer
has reason to believe that-
(a) a first case of plague recognized as non-
imported has occurred or in which rodent plague
exists or has existed during the previous six months;
or
(b) cholera has formed a foyer, that is to say
that the occurrence of new cases beyond the
immediate surroundings of the first case proves that
the spread of the disease has not been limited to
the place where it began; or
(c) a first case of yellow fever recognized as
non-imported has occurred; or
(6) typhus or smallpox exists in epidemic
form, that is to say that the occurrence of new cases
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indicates that the spread of the disease is not under
control;
"infectious disease" means any epidemic or acute infectious
disease, and includes open pulmonary tuberculosis but
does not include venereal disease;
"isolation" means the removal to a hospital or other suitable
place approved by the Health Officer, of a person
suffering, or suspected to be suffering, from an infectious
disease, and his detention therein until, in the opinion
of the Health Officer-
(a) he is free from infection, or
(b) if not so free, he may be discharged
without undue danger to the public health;
"local area" means a well defined area such as a province,
district, island, town or quarter of a town, port or village,
whatever may be its extent or population;
"observation" means the detention under medical supervision
of persons in such places and for such periods as may
be directed by a Health Officer;
6 ' passenger" means any person, other than a member of the
crew, carried in an aircraft;
"period of incubation" for the purpose of these regulations
shall be deemed to be-
............................................. For plague 6 days
............................................ For cholera 5 days
...................................... For yellow fever 6 days
............................................. For typhus 12 days
.......................................... For smallpox 14 days
"Quarantine Authority" means the Quarantine Authority
established under the powers conferred by section 3 of
the Act;
"sanitary aerodrome7' means an aerodrome declared under
regulation 4 to be a sanitary aerodrome;
"specified infectious disease" means plague, cholera, yellow
fever, typhus and smallpox;
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"surveillance" means that persons are not detained, that they
may move about freely, but that they are required to
report for medical examination at such intervals and
during such period and to such persons as may be
directed by a Health Officer;
"the Act" means the Quarantine Act.
3. (1) The Quarantine Authority may by order authorize Officers.
any officer or person or any member of a class of officers or persons
to act as an authorized officer for the purposes of these regu-
lations or for some specified purpose of these regulations.
(2) Everv such officer or Derson shall exercise his Dowers and
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perform his duties subject to the general or special directiori and
control of the Quarantine Authority and the Health Officer.
4. The Governor-General may, by order, declare any Approval of
authorized aerodrome in Antigua and Barbuda to be a sanitary ~ ~ ~ f ~ m e s .
aerodrome for the purposes of these regulations, where he is satisfied
that there are available at the aerodrome-
(a) a Health Officer and adequate sanitary staff (whether
or not in permanent attendance);
(b) a place for medical inspection;
(c) equipment for taking and despatching suspected
material to a laboratory for examination if such examination
cannot be made at the aerodrome;
(6) facilities for the isolation, transport and care of the
sick, for the observation of contacts separately from the sick
and for carrying out any other prophylactic measure in
suitable premises within the aerodrome or in proximity to it;
( e ) apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection,
disinsectisation and deratisation if required, as well as any
other measures laid down in these regulations;
Cf) a sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water;
(g) a proper and safe system for the removal and disposal
of excreta, refuse and waste water;
(h ) adequate protection from rats.
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Use of 5 . (1) All aircraft on entering Antigua and Barbuda shall
aerodromes. mage their first landing at a prescribed aerodrome (as hereinafter
defined) and all aircraft on leaving Antigua and Barbuda shall
depart from a prescribed aerodrome.
(2) If any of the provisions of this regulation are contravened
as regards any aircraft, the commander thereof shall be guilty of
an offence against these regulations.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation the expression
"prescribed aerodrome" means-
( a ) a sanitary aerodrome; or
( b ) an authorized aerodrome approved by order of the
Quarantine Authority for use as a prescribed aerodrome either
generally or in the particular case or class of case.
(4) Where the Health Officer is of opinion that the aerodrome
at which an aircraft arrives is not suitably equipped to deal with
such aircraft, he may order the commander thereof to take it to
an aerodrome which is suitably equipped.
Aircraft landing 6. (1) In the event of an aircraft on entering Antigua and
otherwise than at
permitted Barbuda being compelled to land elsewhere than at an aerodrome
aerodromes. at which it is permitted to land under these regulations, the
following provisions shall have effect-
( a ) as soon as practicable after the landing, the
commander shall cause to be reported to a Health Officer,
authorized officer or Government Medical Officer the
circumstances of the flight and the emergency landing;
(b ) without the permission of a Health Officer, authorized
officer or Government Medical Officer, no person shall
remove any merchandise or baggage from the aircraft, and
no passenger or member of the crew shall depart from the
landing place, unless such removal or departure is necessary
for the purposes of safety or of the preservation of life or
property, and the commander shall take all steps in his power
to secure compliance with this provision;
(c) a Health Officer, authorized officer or Government
Medical Officer may give all such orders and instructions
to the crew and passengers, and may impose all such
conditions upon them, as he may deem advisable having
regard to the principles of these regulations.
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(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any
of the provisions of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall be guilty
of an offence against these regulations.
7. (1) The commander of every aircraft arriving in Antigua Duties of
and Barbuda shall- commander.
(a) as long as possible before arrival, inform the Health
Officer or an authorized officer by wireless of any death, and
of any case or suspected case of infectious disease, on board
the aircraft;
( 6 ) on arrival-
(i) answer all questions as to health conditions on board,
which may be put to him by the Health Officer or
an authorized officer, produce to either or both of
those officers the journey log book of the aircraft
if so required, and furnish either or both of them
with all such information and assistance as may
reasonably be required for the purposes of these
regulations; and
(ii) make and present to a Health Officer or an authoriz-
ed officer a declaration of health in a form from
time to time'approved by the Quarantine Authori-
ty, in which shall be set out the places of call and
any facts relevant to public health which have arisen
in the aircraft in the course of the voyage and any
health measures undergone by the aircraft, the crew
and the passengers before departure and at places
of call.
(2) The commander of an aircraft who contravenes or fails
to comply with any of the provisions of this regulation shall be
guilty of an offence against these regulations.
8. When any specified infectious disease makes its Details of
appearance in any part of Antigua and Barbuda, the Health Officer ~ f ; ' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
or an authorized officer shall enter all necessary details in the diseases to be
journey log book or other convenient record of all aircraft leaving recorded.
an aerodrome during a period of fifteen days from the date on
which information of such specified infectious disease was received.
9. (1) Every member of the crew and passenger of an Duties of crew
aircraft arriving in Antigua and Barbuda shall furnish all such and passengers.
information as may reasonably be required by the Health Officer
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or an authorized officer, including information as to his name,
state of health and origin, and information as to places recently
visited, his destination and his address there, and shall, if so
required by the Health Officer or an authorized officer, complete
and sign a certificate of origin and destination in a form from
time to time approved by the Quarantine Authority.
(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any
of the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence
against these regulations.
Detention of 10. When an aircraft arrives in Antigua and Barbuda and
aircraft by an
authorized it appears to an authorized officer from information given to him
officer. by the commander, crew or passengers or from the journey log-
book or declaration of health that-
(a) during the voyage there has been in the aircraft a
death otherwise than by accident or a case of illness caused
or suspected to be caused by an infectious disease; or
(b) that the aircraft is an infected aircraft or an aircraft
coming from an infected area,
he shall order that the aircraft be detained and shall immediately
report the matter to the Health Officer and to the person in charge
of the aerodrome, and the Health Officer shall forthwith take such
action as may be appropriate under these regulations.
Powers of Health 11. Without prejudice to any other provisions of these
Officer. regulations, the Health Officer may, in relation to any aircraft
arriving at an aerodrome in Antigua and Barbuda-
( a ) medically inspect the crew and passengers;
(b) detain any such persons for medical examination;
(c) prohibit any such persons from leaving the aerodrome
save upon such specified conditions as appear to the Health
Officer to be reasonably necessary to prevent the spread of
infection;
(4 order that the aircraft be detained (notifying such
order to the person in charge of the aerodrome) to enable
such action as may be appropriate under these regulations
to be taken:
Provided that an aircraft shall not be detained longer
than is necessary for the taking of such action;
(e) if the aircraft has arrived from an area from which
it is liable to bring insect vectors of malaria or other diseases,
order that the aircraft shall be disinsected.
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12. If there is on board an aircraft arriving at an aerodrome Measures to be
in Antigua and Barbuda a case of infectious disease other than ;,P,P~: z:$
a specified infectious disease, duly so verified by the Health Officer, persons.
the sick person may be landed and, at the direction of the Health
Officer, isolated, and such other sanitary measures as such officer
may consider desirable shall be applied; the other passengers and
crew shall have the right to continue the vovaee after medical - , u
inspection and the application of the appropriate sanitary measures,
such measures being so arranged that the aircraft is detained as
short a time as possible.
13. The Quarantine Authority may by general or special Disinse~tisation,
order prohibit aircraft coming from an area outside Antigua and prior to lan
ding
'
Barbuda from which they are liable to bring insect vectors of
malaria or any other disease from landing in Antigua and Barbuda
unless they have been disinsected immediately before leaving that
area or during the voyage, and if this provision is not complied
with, the commander of the aircraft shall be guilty of an offence
against these regulations.
14. The discharge from aircraft of matter capable of Discharge of
producing an outbreak of infectious disease is prohibited, and any ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ m
person who shall contravene this prohibition shall be guilty of an
offence against these regulations.
15. These regulations shall have effect as though Part VIII Observation and
of the Quarantine (Maritime) Regulations, and any regulations surveillance.
amending or replacing the same, were incorporated in these
regulations:
Provided that-
(a) in the case of persons in transit who are liable to
surveillance under these regulations, the Health Officer may
permit them to continue their voyage but shall take such steps
as he may deem appropriate to notify the sanitary authorities
of the place to which they are proceeding;
( b ) in the case of persons in transit who are liable to
observation in respect of specified infectious diseases other
than yellow fever, the Health Officer may permit them to
continue their voyage if he is satisfied that the sanitary
authorities of the places to which they are proceeding do not
object to this course.
16. The Health Officer may, before the departure of an General powers
aircraft, medically inspect the passengers and crew and may 'O
prohibit the embarkation of any person with symptoms of any departing.
infectious disease. In the absence of the Health Officer the person
Application of
Part IV.
Infected aircraft
and aircraft
coming from
infected areas.
Aircraft
departing from
infected areas.
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in charge of the aerodrome or any authorized officer shall have
power to defer the departure of any person until he has been
medically inspected.
17. The provisions of this Part shall be without prejudice
to any other provisions of these regulations.
18. If an infected aircraft or an aircraft coming from an
infected area arrives at an aerodrome, the appropriate measures
set out in the Schedule in relation to specified infectious diseases
other then yellow fever shall be carried out.
19. In the case of an aircraft departing from an infected
area, in which there is infection by a specified infectious disease
other than yellow fever, the appropriate measures set out below
shall be carried out, that is to say-
(a) cleansing and disinfection to the satisfaction of the
Health Officer of any parts of the aircraft which, in his
opinion, require to be cleansed and disinfected;
(6) medical inspection of passengers and crew, and the
prohibition of embarkation or departure of any such person
who shows symptoms of any specified infectious disease; as
well as any such person in such close relation with the sick
as to render him liable to transmit the infection of any such
disease;
(c) inspection of the clothing, bedding (if any), and other
personal effects of the passengers and crew and prohibition
of the loading or carriage of any such clothing, bedding or
personal effects which are not in a reasonable state of
cleanliness;
(d) disinfection of clothing, bedding and personal effects
as aforesaid at the discretion of the Health Officer;
( e ) at the discretion of the Health Ofiicer disinsectisation
of the passengers and crew and their clothing, bedding (if
any) and other personal effects, and disinsectisation and
deratisation of the aircraft;
(f) prohibition of the taking on board or carriage in the
aircraft of any article which, in the opinion of the Health
Officer, is capable of carrying infection, unless the Health
Officer is satisfied that it has been efficiently disinfected.
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20. The provisions of this Part shall be without ~rejudice Application of
to any provisions of these regulations. Part V.
21. Except with the general or special permission of the Prohjbition of
Quarantine Authority, no aircraft shall land in or depart from ~$'~~n:&,
any yellow fever infected or endemic area in Antigua and Barbuda. certain areas.
22. (1) Except with the general or special ~ermission of Prohibition of
the Quarantine Authority, no aircraft coming from a yellow fever ~ ~ ~ f ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ i n g
infected or endemic area outside Antigua and Barbuda shall enter Barbuda from
Antigua and Barbuda. certain areas
outside Antigua
and Barbuda.
(2) When permission is given to any such aircraft as provided
in paragraph (1) of this regulation, the aircraft shall use only such . - -
aerodromes in Antigua and Barbuda as may be specified by the
Quarantine Authority.
23. O n the arrival of an aircraft from a r ell ow fever infected Measures on
area or from an aerodrome situated in or near a yellow fever in- ; r ~ ~ a ~ e ~ i ~ ~ ~
fected area, the following measures shall be taken- which yellow
fever exists.
(a) disinsectisation of the aircraft prior to landing of
passengers and cargo;
(6) medical inspection of passengers and crew;
(c) isolation under ~ides-free conditions of persons
suspected to be suffering from yellow fever, or who are suf-
fering from any febrile illness until the nature of the illness
is determined;
(4 observation as provided in paragraph (2) of regulation
38 of the Quarantine (Maritime) Regulations, as incorporated
in these regulations by regulation 15;
(e) surveillance for six days from last day of possible
exposure to infection of persons who are not subjected to
observation on arrival.
24. (1) On the arrival of an aircraft from 'an aerodrome Measures on
situated in an endemic area, the following measures shall be taken- ;ztnof aircraft
(a) disinsectisation of the aircraft prior to landing of ~~~~~ an
passengers and cargo; endemic area.
(6) medical inspection of passengers and crew;
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(c) isolation under ~k'des-free conditions of persons
suspected to be suffering from yellow fever;
(4 surveillance, for six days from the last day of possible
, exposure to infection, of passengers and crew who are not
immune.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this regulation, the
American mainland between the latitudes of 13' N. and 30' S.
and the West Coast of Africa between the latitudes of 16" N. and
12' S. shall be deemed to be endemic areas; but between these
latitudes such areas may be excluded by direction of the Quarantine
Authority as are known to the Quarantine Authority to be areas
in which yellow fever does not exist in a form recognizable clinically,
biologically or pathologically.
Aircraft in 25. Aircraft from healthy areas which in transit to Antigua
transit landing to
take in and Barbuda have called at an aerodrome in an infected or endemic
area merely to take in supplies, shall be exempt from measures
specified in regulations 23 and 24 of these regulations other than
disinsectisation on arrival in Antigua and Barbuda:
Provided the fact that the aircraft has called at such an
aerodrome for the sole purpose of taking in supplies is entered
in the journey log-book, declaration form or other record.
Measures on 26. Before the departure of an aircraft from a yellow fever
departure from
areas of infected or endemic area of Antigua and Barbuda the following
Antigua and measures shall be taken-
Barbuda.
(a) passengers and crew, who are not immune shall
undergo observation under Aedes-free conditions for six days
immediately before departure;
(b) all merchandise, baggage and other articles from the
area and, at the discretion of the Health Officer, from other
areas shall be disinsected before loading;
(6) merchandise, baggage and other articles on board
the aircraft shall be disinsected at the discretion of the Health
Officer;
(6) the aircraft shall be disinfected immediately before
departure.
Restriction as to
certain
aerodromes.
27. No person other than-
(a) an immune person; or
(6) a person arriving in an aircraft from a place outside
Antigua and Barbuda; or
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(c) an intending passenger or member of the crew who,
with the approval of the Health Officer, has undergone or
is about to undergo observation in accordance with the
provisions of regulation 26,
shall enter an aerodrome which is in a yellow fever infected or
endemic area of Antigua and Barbuda.
28. Any person in transit by air who arrives at an Persons in
aerodrome to which regulation 27 applies from a place outside
Antigua and Barbuda shall, unless he is immune, be detained under
Aedes-free conditions within the precincts of the aerodrome or
elsewhere until his departure by air.
29. The commander of an aircraft which shall contravene Offences.
regulation 21 or 22, any person who shall contravene regulation
27, and any person who shall leave a place of detention ordered
under regulation 28, shall be guilty of offences against these
regulations.
30. It shall be the duty of the Quarantine Authority to take Duty to keep
such practicable measures as may lawfully be taken to ensure that ~ ~ , " ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ s free
authorized aerodromes, and premises in the vicinity thereof, in from mosquitoes.
Antigua and Barbuda are kept free from mosquitoes.
3 1. The Quarantine Authority shall be responsible for the !,"@izdfil~
collection and transmission, directly or through the appropriate convention and
channels, of all information required to be collected and transmitted Agreements.
under the Convention or under any Agreement to which the
Government is a party relating to Quarantine matters.
32. It shall be the duty of the Quarantine Authority to cause Lists of infected
to be compiled and kept up to date a list of infected and endemic
areas, both within and without Antigua and Barbuda, and to cause
all Health Officers to be supplied with copies of the list as from
time to time amended.
PART VII
33. (1) Where the commander of any aircraft is required Charges for
by or in pursuance of these regulations to carry out any measures ~jgi measures
with a view to reducing the danger or preventing the spread of
infection, the Quarantine Authority may, at the request of the
commander, and, if thought fit, at his costs, cause any such
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Further
provisions as to
expenses and
charges.
Saving as to
mails.
The Schedule.
CAP. 361) Quarantine
requirement to be complied with instead of enforcing the
requirement against the commander. When the Quarantine
Authority causes any such requirement to be complied with at
the cost of the commander, the Quarantine Authority may require
the amount of the charge for the work or a part thereof to be
paid to or deposited with the Quarantine Authority before the
work is undertaken.
(2) The amount of the charge for any work so to be under-
taken by the Quarantine Authority shall be such reasonable sum
as, to the exclusion of any charge or claim in respect of profit,
represents the actual or estimated cost to be incurred by the
Quarantine Authority in undertaking the work, so, however, that
it shall not exceed the sum of ninety-six dollars unless notice of
the proposed charge has been given to the commander before the
work is undertaken.
(3) All such charges may be recovered against the commander,
aircraft owner or his agent.
34. The charges to be made in respect of persons under-
going quarantine, isolation or observation, and the incidence of
such charges, shall be such as are provided for in rules made under
the Act:
Provided that no charge shall be made for any child under
three years of age, and for any child over three years of age and
under ten years of age half the prescribed charges shall be payable
and shall be payable by and recovered from the person in charge
of the child.
35. (1) All expenses and charges referred to in these regu-
lations shall be payable to the Quarantine Authority.
(2) Where any expenses or charges are payable by the
commander of an aircraft to the Quarantine Authority in relation
to an aircraft at an aerodrome, the Harbour Master or any Customs
Officer on duty at the aerodrome may refuse to clear the aircraft
until all liability in respect of the expenses or charges has been
discharged..
PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
36. Save as provided in regulation 39 (2), or in Parts A
and B of the Schedule, nothing in these regulations shall render
liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any article forming
part of any mail conveyed under the authority of the postal
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administration of Antigua and Barbuda or any other Government,
or shall prejudicially affect the receipt on board and delivery in
due course of any such mail in accordance with the provisions
of the Post Office Act. Cap. 335.
37. In applying measures to an aircraft coming from an Health Officers
infected area, the Health Officers of every aerodrome shall take E t z i F t
into account all measures which have already been applied to the measures.
aircraft in any other aerodrome in Antigua and Barbuda or
elsewhere and which are duly noted in the journey log-book,
declaration form or other record.
38. Aircraft coming from an infected area, which have, Aircraft in
in the opinion of the Health Officer, already been subjected to s;?:,"~:,"~,"d"~
satisfactory measures either in Antigua and Barbuda or elsewhere, to measures a
shall not be subjected to such measures, other than disin- second time.
sectisation, a second time on arrival at another aerodrome if no
subsequent incident has occurred which calls for their re-application
and if the aircraft has not called at an aerodrome which is, or
is within, an infected area except to take in fuel.
39. (1) If the commander of an aircraft which has landed Saving in the
in Antigua and Barbuda at an aerodrome which is not its final : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ f t
destination does not desire to submit to any measures specified voyage.
in these regulations which may be applicable, and notifies the
Health Officer accordingly, he shall be at liberty to continue the
voyage without such submission:
Provided that if the aircraft has on board a case of yellow
fever, or comes from a yellow fever infected area, the Health Officer
may require that it shall be subjected to such of the measures
specified by these regulations in relation to that disease as he
considers necessary.
(2) Where the commander notifies the Health Officer as
aforesaid, he shall not land goods or disembark passengers except
with the permission of the Health Officer and subject to such
conditions as the Health Officer may impose in conformity with
the provisions of these regulations.
40. (1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, the General duty to
Quarantine Authority, the Health Officer or any authorized oficer with
may give such orders and instructions and impose such conditions instructions and
and take such actions as they may deem desirable for the purpose
of carrying these regulations into effect.
(2) Every person to whom these regulations apply shall comply
with all such orders, instructions and conditions, and shall furnish
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all such information as the Quarantine Authority, Health Officer
or authorized officer may reasonably require (including information
as to his name, destination and address) and every person who
has for the time being the custody or charge of a child or other
perspn who is under disability shall comply with any orders,
instructions or conditions so given made or imposed, and shall
furnish all such information as aforesaid in respect of such child
or other person.
Health Officer to 41. (1) The Health Officer applying measures shall,
furnish
certificates of whenever requested, furnish free of charge to the commander of
measures taken. the aircraft or any other interested person, a certificate specifying
the nature of such measures, the methods employed, the parts
of the aircraft treated and the reasons for the application of such
measures.
(2) The Health Officer shall also furnish, on demand and
without charge, to passengers arriving by an aircraft in which a
case of specified infectious disease has occurred, a certificate giving
particulars of the date of their arrival and of the measures to which
they and their personal effects have been subjected.
T H E SCHEDULE R.18
Measures to be carried out in respect of an infected aircraft or
an aircraft coming from an infected area.
PART A. - Plague
1. The aircraft shall be inspected and the passengers and
crew shall be medically examined.
2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.
3. All other persons shall be placed under surveillance or,
in exceptional circumstances, observation, for a period expiring
not later than six days after the date of arrival of the aircraft at
the aerodrome.
4. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of the Health
Officer, are infected, shall be cleansed of vermin and, if necessary,
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disinfected, and merchandise proposed to be discharged may, if
it is considered liable to harbour rats or fleas, be subjected to such
measures as the Health Officer thinks fit.
5 . The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by
persons suffering from plague or which the Health Officer considers
to be infected shall be cleansed of vermin, and, if necessary
disinfected.
6. The Health Officer may in exceptional cases require the
aircraft to be deratised if there is reason to suspect the presence
of rats on board and if the operation was not carried out at the
aerodrome of departure.
1. The passengers and crew may be medically examined.
2. Any such persons may be placed under surveillance or,
in exceptional circumstances, observation for a period expiring
not later than six days after the date on which the aircraft left
the infected area.
3. The Health Officer may in exceptional circumstances
require the aircraft to be cleansed of vermin and to be deratised
if these operations were not carried out at the aerodrome of
departure.
4. Merchandise proposed to be discharged from the aircraft
may, if the Health Officer considers it liable to harbour rats or
fleas, be subjected to such measures as he thinks fit.
Part B. - Cholera
1. The aircraft shall be inspected and the passengers and
crew shall be medically examined.
2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.
3. All other persons shall be placed under surveillance or,
in exceptional circumstances, observation, for a period expiring
not later than five days after the date of arrival of the aircraft:
Provided that any person who satisfies the Health Officer that
he has been vaccinated for cholera within the preceding six months,
excluding the last six days thereof, shall not be placed under
observation.
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4. The Health Officer may prohibit the unloading from
the aircraft of the following fresh foods, namely, fish, shellfish,
fruit and vegetables.
5. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of the Health
Officer, are infected shall be disinfected.
6. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by
persons infected with cholera or which the Health Officer considers
to be infected shall be disinfected.
7. If the drinking water stored on board is suspected by
the Health Officer, it shall be disinfected and, if practicable,
emptied out and replaced after disinfection of the container, by
a supply of wholesome drinking water.
1. The passengers and crew may be medically examined.
2. Any such persons may be placed under surveillance or,
in exceptional circumstances, observation for a period expiring
not later than five days after the date on which the aircraft left
the infected area:
Provided that any person who satisfies the Health Officer that
he has been vaccinated for cholera within the preceding six months,
excluding the last six days thereof, shall not be placed under
observation.
3. The unloading from the aircraft of the following fresh
foods, namely, fish, shellfish, fruit and vegetables may be pro-
hibited by the Health Officer.
Part C. - Typhus Fever
1. The passengers and crew shall be medically examined.
2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked, isolated and
deloused.
3. Any other person reasonably suspected to have been
exposed to infection may be placed under surveillance, or, in
exceptional circumstances, observation for a period expiring not
later than twelve days after the date on which he was deloused.
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4. Any person reasonably suspected to be harbouring lice
shall be deloused.
5 . Bedding which has been used, linen, wearing apparel
and any other articles which the Health Officer considers to be
infected shall be disinsected.
6. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by
persons suffering from typhus fever or which the Health Officer
considers to be infected shall be disinsected.
The passengers and crew may be placed under surveillance
or, in exceptional circumstances, observation for a period expiring
not later than twelve days after the date on which they left the
infected area.
Part D. - Smallpox
1. The passengers and crew shall be medically examined.
2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.
3. Any other person reasonably suspected by the Health
Officer to have been ex~osed to infection on board shall be offered
vaccination and shall be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional
circumstances, observation for a period expiring not later than
fourteen days after the date of arrival of the aircraft:
Provided that a person shall be placed under surveillance or
observation if after vaccination he shows signs of early reaction
attesting an adequate immunity, or if he satisfies the Health Officer
that he is already sufficiently immunised against smallpox; and
for the purpose of this paragraph a person shall be regarded as
already sufficiently immunised against smallpox if-
(a) he produces a vaccination certificate to the satisfaction
of the Health Officer bearing the date thereof and signed
or countersigned by a medical officer in the employment of
the Government or of the health authorities of the territory
in which the certificate was issued to the effect that he has
been vaccinated not less than fourteen days and not more
than three years prior to the date of arrival; or
( b ) he shows signs of a previous attack of smallpox; or
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(c) he shows signs of successful vaccination carried out
not less than fourteen days and not more than three years
prior to the date of arrival; or
(d) he shows local signs of early reaction to anti-variolous
Gaccination attesting an adequate immunity.
4. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing
apparel and any other article which the Health Officer considers
to have been recently infected shall be disinfected.
5 . The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by
persons suffering from smallpox or which the Health Officer
considers to be infected shall be disinfected.
The passengers and crew, except those persons who satisfy
the Health Officer that they fall within the proviso to paragraph 3
of Part D-I of the Schedule, may be placed under surveillance
or, in exceptional circumstances, observation for a period expiring
not later than fourteen days after the date on which they left the
infected area.
