S.L. 465.10 Art. 10Examination of persons on ships.

(1) The medical officer may, and if so requested by the master or required by the Superintendent, examine any person on board a ship on arrival or already in port, 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 authorised officer may -

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

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

(c) except as provided in regulation 30, 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, under these regulations, as the authorised officer considers reasonably necessary for preventing the spread of infection; and

(d) 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 the existence of which might facilitate the harbouring of insects or vermin.