F18.—(1) Where a person intending to leave an aircraft at a customs airport is an infected person or a suspected person, the medical officer may—
(a)cause such person on leaving the aircraft to be isolated, or to be sent to a hospital or to some other suitable place approved for that purpose by the Board; or
(b)except as provided in regulation 28, the medical officer may, by notice in writing to the commander, prohibit the person from leaving the aircraft without the written consent of the medical officer;
(2) Where the Department is satisfied that a grave danger to public health exists by reason of infectious disease and notifies medical officers accordingly, the medical officer may, and if the Department so directs, shall require a person leaving an aircraft at a customs airport to state in writing his name and intended destination and address.
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 7, 8 applied as inserted by 2013 SR246 reg. 11(7)(e) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/246), regs. 1(1), 11(7)(e))
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