The Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations 1979

Surveillance

30.—(1) Where these regulations permit a medical officer to place a person under surveillance, the period of such surveillance shall not exceed such of the following periods as may be appropriate:—

(a) in respect of plague, six days;

(b) in respect of cholera, five days;

(c) in respect of yellow fever, six days;

(d) in respect of smallpox, fourteen days;

(e) in respect of lassa fever, viral haemorrhagic fever or marburg disease, twenty-one days.

(2) Where a person has been so placed under surveillance for plague, cholera, smallpox, lassa fever, viral haemorrhagic fever or marburg disease under regulation 20 by reasons of his having come from an infected area, the period shall be reckoned from the date of his leaving the infected area.

(3) When a person has been so placed under surveillance pursuant to the additional measures, the period shall be reckoned in the manner therein specified.

31.  Every person who is placed under surveillance under these regulations shall—

(a) give facilities for any medical examination required by the medical officer for any area in which he may be during the period of surveillance;

(b) furnish all such information as the medical officer may reasonably require with a view to ascertaining the person's state of health;

(c) forthwith upon arrival during the period of surveillance at any address, other than the one stated as his intended address on leaving the aerodrome at which he arrived in England or Wales, send particulars of that address to the medical officer;

(d) if so instructed by the medical officer, report immediately to the medical officer for any area in which he may be during the period of surveillance, and thereafter during that period report to that officer at such intervals as he may require:

Provided that an instruction shall not be given under this sub-paragraph unless the Secretary of State has by direction (whether general or special) authorised the giving of instructions thereunder.