S.L. 36.16 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"additional measures" means such of the additional measures specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations with respect to the quarantinable diseases as are appropriate;

"aerodrome" means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart or commonly used for affording facilities for the arrival and departure of aircraft; "aircraft declaration of health" means a declaration containing the information specified in the First Schedule to these Regulations, being a part of the Aircraft General Declaration delivered pursuant to Annex 9 to the Chicago Convention on Civil Aviation, 1944; "authorised officer" means the medical officer or any other officer authorised by the responsible authority under regulation 3 to enforce and execute any of these Regulations; "commander" means the person for the time being in command of an aircraft; "customs airport" means an aerodrome for the time being so designated by the Prime Minister; "customs officer" means any person acting under the authority of the Comptroller of Customs; "excepted area" means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the Irish Republic, Italy, France in Europe, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg;

"immigration officer" means any person appointed by the Commissioner of Police to act as an immigration officer;

"infected aircraft" means

(a) an aircraft which has on board on arrival a case of human plague, cholera, yellow fever or smallpox; or

(b) an aircraft on which a plague-infected rodent is found during a flight to Malta; or

(c) an aircraft which has had a case of smallpox on board during its voyage and which has not before arrival been subject in respect of such case to appropriate measures equivalent to those provided for in these Regulations;

"infected area" means an aerodrome or other area included in the list kept by the medical officer pursuant to regulation 5, and references to an area infected with a specified disease shall be construed accordingly; "infected person" means a person who is suffering from a quarantinable disease, or who is considered by the medical officer to be infected with such a disease;

"infectious disease" means a quarantinable disease or any other infectious or contagious disease other than veneral disease or tuberculosis; "International Sanitary Regulations" means the International Sanitary Regulations (W.H.O. Regulations No. 2) adopted by the Fourth World Health Assembly on the 25 May, 1951; "medical officer" means the port medical officer; "quarantinable disease" means plague, cholera, yellow fever, small pox, typhus or relapsing fever; "relapsing fever" means louse-borne relapsing fever;

"responsible authority", in relation to an aerodrome or other place, means the authority charged under regulation 3 with the duty of enforcing and executing these Regulations; "sanitary airport" means a customs airport which has been designated as such by the Prime Minister; "suspect" means a person (not being an infected person) who is considered by the medical officer to have been exposed to infection by a quarantinable disease and to be capable of spreading the disease;

"suspected aircraft" means an aircraft from which a case of cholera occurring on board during the voyage has been disembarked before the arrival of the aircraft, and which has not before arrival been subject in respect of such case to appropriate measures equivalent to those provided for in these Regulations;

"typhus fever" means louse-borne typhus. "voyage", in relation to an aircraft, means the flight of the aircraft from its point of origin via any intermediate points to its point of termination.

(2) Any reference, however expressed, to a person leaving an aircraft shall be construed as a reference to that person leaving the aircraft and not continuing his journey in that aircraft.

(3) An aircraft shall not be deemed to have been in an infected area if, having voyaged over infected territory, it has alighted in that territory only at a sanitary airport which is not itself an infected area.