S.L. 465.10 Art. 21Detention of ships and ships to be taken to mooring station.

(1) On the arrival of an infected ship or a suspected ship, or any other ship on which there has been, during its current voyage and within the last four weeks before arrival, a case of plague, cholera, yellow fever or small pox in respect of which the ship has not, outside the Maltese waters, been subjected to appropriate measures equivalent to those provided for in these regulations, the master shall take it to a mooring station unless the medical officer allows or directs otherwise.

(2) When the medical officer has cause to believe that a ship on arrival may be one to which sub-regulation (1) applies, he may direct the master to take the ship to a mooring station or to such other place as he considers desirable.