Cap. 36 Art. 50Power of Minister to make regulations with regardtoships,etc.

(1) The Minister responsible for public health may prescribe by regulations the measures to be taken for the prevention of danger arising to public health from ships, aircraft or passengers arriving in Malta, as well as measures for the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any ship or aircraft or passengers leaving Malta.

(2) Such regulations may in particular provide for -

(a) the signals to be hoisted or given by ships or by aircraft having any case of disease on board;

(b) the questions to be answered by masters, pilots, and other persons on board any ship or aircraft as to the occurrence on board of cases of disease and as to other sanitary circumstances during the voyage or on arrival in Malta;

(c) the detention of ships or aircraft and the detention of persons on board ships or in a quarantine station as well as the examination of ships or aircraft and of persons on board the same, in each case before they obtain free pratique;

(d) the duties to be performed in cases of such disease by masters, pilots and other persons on board ships or aircraft;

(e) the disinfection of ships and aircraft and of persons, animals, goods and any other articles to be landed therefrom;

(f) the measures to be adopted, in the case of outgoing passengers, ships or aircraft to prevent exportation of disease;

(g) the measures to be taken against insects, rats or other animals liable to carry infection;

(h) the recovery of any expenses incurred in the disinfection or other operations carried out in ships or aircraft in connection with measures adopted under the regulations;

(i) the charges to be made under the regulations and for services performed thereunder, and the recovery of such charges;

(j) the exercise and performance of any powers and duties under the regulations by the authorities therein mentioned;

(k) the form and mode of service or delivery of notices and other documents;

(l) generally for the better execution of the provisions of this Ordinance and for the purpose of in any manner preventing the importation of disease into Malta.