The Public Health (Ships) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

PART II GENERAL

Enforcement

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) every Board shall enforce and execute these Regulations and shall exercise its functions through the medical officer and such other officers as it may authorise in that behalf, and shall make such inquiries and take such other steps as seem to it to be necessary for securing the proper exercise of those functions.

(2) Any two Boards may agree that one of them shall undertake the enforcement and execution of the whole or specified provisions of these Regulations in the area of the other provided that they first obtain the approval of the Department to the terms of the agreement.

(3) The area in which a provision of these Regulations is enforced and executed under an agreement made under paragraph (2) shall be deemed to be the area of the Board which enforces and executes it.

(4) Where an agreement under paragraph (2) enables a Board to enforce and execute the provisions relating to ship sanitation certificates in the area of another Board, an authorised officer of the Board shall have authority to issue or amend a ship sanitation certificate in the area of the other Board.

(5) A Board must—

(a) provide the National IHR Focal Point with the current contact details of each authorised port within its area;

(b) ensure that no ship sanitation certificate is issued without prior inspection by an authorised officer with appropriate expertise;

(c) ensure that any control measures required under regulations 15(1)(a)(ii)(aa), 16(3)(a)(i) and (4)(a)(i) are carried out by or under the supervision of an authorised officer with appropriate expertise.

Appointment and duties of medical officers and provisions of services by Boards

5.  For the purposes of these Regulations, a Board may, and if so required by the Department shall—

(a) appoint such medical practitioners, in addition to its medical officer as may be necessary for the proper enforcement and execution of these Regulations;

(b) give directions from time to time as to the duties which are to be performed by any medical practitioner so appointed or any other officer authorised to enforce and execute these Regulations;

(c) provide or arrange for the provision of —

(i) premises or waiting rooms for the medical inspection and examination of persons;

(ii) premises for the temporary isolation of persons under these Regulations;

(iii) apparatus or other means for cleansing, disinfecting or disinsecting ships, persons or clothing and other articles;

(d) arrange for the reception into hospital of persons requiring to be removed to a hospital under these Regulations;

(e) arrange for the provision of means of transport for the conveyance of persons to any premises referred to in paragraph (c), or to a hospital;

(f) do all things as in its opinion or the opinion of the Department, as the case may be, are necessary to enable the provisions of these Regulations to be complied with.