The Public Health (Ships) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Examination, etc, of persons on ships

8.—(1) The medical officer may, and if so requested by the master or required by the Department shall, examine any person on board a ship on arrival or already in the Board area, where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person

(a) is an infected person

(b) is a suspected person; or

(c) is verminous.

(2) An authorised officer may—

(a) detain any such person for such examination either upon the ship or at some place on shore appointed for the purpose;

(b) require the clothing and other articles belonging to any person so examined to be disinfected and, where necessary, disinsected,

(c) require any person found to be verminous to be disinsected;

(d) except as provided in regulation 34, prohibit any person so examined from leaving the ship, or permit him to leave it on such conditions and subject to the taking of such measures, as the authorised officer considers reasonably necessary for preventing the spread of infection; and

(e) require the master to take or assist in taking such steps as in the opinion of the authorised officer are reasonably necessary for preventing the spread of infection, for disinsection and the destruction of vermin and for the removal of conditions on the ship likely to convey infection, including conditions the existence of which might facilitate the harbouring of insects or vermin.

(3) Nothing in this Regulation shall be deemed to authorise the use of a ship for the isolation of such a person who is suffering from, or had been exposed to an infectious disease unless such isolation can be effected without delaying or unduly interfering with the movements of that ship.