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

Surveillance N.I.

34.—(1) Where these Regulations permit a medical officer to place a person under surveillance, the period of such surveillance shall not exceed such of the following periods as may be appropriate:—

(a) in respect of plague, six days;

(b) in respect of cholera, five days;

(c) in respect of yellow fever, six days;

(d) in respect of smallpox, fourteen days;

(e) in respect of lassa fever, viral haemorrhagic fever, or marburg disease, twenty one days.

(2) Where a person has been placed under surveillance for plague, cholera, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever under this regulation by reason of his having come from an area infected with such a disease, the period shall be reckoned from the date of his leaving the infected area.

(3) When a person has been so placed under surveillance under the additional measures in Schedule 3, the period shall be reckoned in the manner therein specified.

(4) Every person who is placed under surveillance under these Regulations shall—

(a) give consent to any medical examination required by the medical officer or by the medical officer for any Board area in which he may be during the period of surveillance;

(b) furnish all such information as a medical officer mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) may reasonably require with a view to ascertaining the person’s state of health;

(c) forthwith upon arrival during the period of surveillance at any address other than the one stated as his intended address when placed under surveillance, send particulars of that address to the medical officer;

(d) if so instructed by the medical officer, report immediately to the medical officer for any Board area in which he may be during the period of surveillance, and thereafter during that period report to that officer at such intervals as he may require;

• Provided that an instruction shall not be given under this regulation unless the Department has by direction (whether general or special) authorised the giving of instructions thereunder.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 34 in operation at 21.8.2008, see reg. 1