The Public Health (Ships) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 No. 515

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations

29.—(1) Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (Additional Measures with Respect to the Diseases Subject to the International Health Regulations) is amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) For the heading to Schedule 4 substitute–

“ADDITIONAL MEASURES WITH RESPECT TO SOME DISEASES”.

(3) Omit the reference to regulation 9(5) in each place where it occurs.

(4) In Part 1 (plague)–

(a) in paragraph (2)(a) (Infected ships and suspected ships), for “a Deratting Exemption Certificate” substitute “a Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate”; and

(b) for subheading B (Ships which have been in infected areas), substitute–

“B Ships which have been in areas infected with plague”.

(5) In Part IV (smallpox), in paragraph (1) (Infected ships), omit “or who does not satisfy the medical officer that he possesses a valid International Vaccination Certificate”.

(6) In Part V (Lassa fever, rabies, viral haemorrhagic fever or Marburg disease), in paragraph (2)(a) (Infected ships and suspected ships), for “A Deratting Exemption Certificate” substitute “A Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate”.