S.L. 36.16 Art. 7Examination, etc., of persons on aircraft.

(1) The medical officer may, and if so requested by the commander or required by the Chief Government Medical Officer shall, examine any person on board or leaving an aircraft at a customs airport, when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that -

(a) the person is suffering from an infectious disease;

(b) the person has been exposed to infection from an infectious disease;

(c) the person is verminous.

(2) The medical officer may -

(a) detain any such person for such examination at a place appointed for the purpose;

(b) at a sanitary airport, require any person so examined to be disinsected, and his clothing and other articles belonging to him to be disinfected and, where necessary, disinsected;

(c) except as provided in regulation 20, prohibit any person so examined from leaving the aircraft or airport, or permit him to leave it on such conditions and subject to the taking of such measures, pursuant to these Regulations, as the medical officer considers reasonably necessary for preventing the spread of infection;

(d) require the commander to take or assist in taking such steps as, in the opinion of the medical officer, are reasonab1y necessary for preventing the spread of infection, for the destruction of insects or vermin, and for the removal of conditions on the aircraft likely to convey infection, including conditions the existence of which might facilitate the harbouring of insects or vermin.