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The Public Health (Ships) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008
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- 2008 No. 333
- PART IV
- Regulation 31
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Examination, etc, of persons proposing to embarkN.I.
31.—(1) Where a ship is due to depart for a destination, whether final or intermediate, outside the United Kingdom, the medical officer —
(a)may examine any person who proposes to embark on the ship if he has reasonable grounds for believing him to be suffering from plague, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever, and —
(i)if after examination the medical officer is of the opinion that the person shows symptoms of one of these diseases, the medical officer shall prohibit the embarkation of the person;
(ii)and the time and place of an examination shall be arranged to take into account any other formalities; and to avoid delay; and
(b)shall prohibit any suspected person from embarking thereon:
Provided that in the case of smallpox a person shall not be prohibited from embarking if he satisfies the medical officer that he is sufficiently protected by vaccination or by previously having had smallpox;
(c)shall notify by the most expeditious means the master and the competent authority for the place to which the person is proceeding of any person embarking or proposing to continue his voyage thereon who, in the opinion of the medical officer, should be placed under surveillance;
(d)notwithstanding the provisions of sub-paragraph (b), may allow a person on an international voyage who, on arrival, was placed under surveillance to continue his voyage.
(2) The medical officer shall notify by the most expeditious means the competent authority for the place to which the person is proceeding that such a person should, in the opinion of the medical officer, be placed under surveillance.
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I1Reg. 31 in operation at 21.8.2008, see reg. 1
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