The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993

2.  In the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(1), in section 13 (regulations for control of certain diseases)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) omit the words from “, as respects” to “coastal waters,”,

(ii) in paragraph (b) for the words after “public health” substitute “from through trains or shuttle trains whose journey terminates in the United Kingdom”, and

(iii) in paragraph (c) for the words “vessel or aircraft leaving any place” substitute “through train or shuttle train whose journey begins in the United Kingdom”;

(b) after subsection (2) insert—

“(2A) Regulations made under this section may provide for the Secretary of State from time to time—

(a) to give written notice to persons operating international services designating all or any through trains as control areas while they are within any area in the United Kingdom specified in the notice or while they constitute a control zone; and

(b) to give written notice designating a control area—

(i) to the Concessionaires as respects any part of the tunnel system in the United Kingdom or of a control zone within the tunnel system in France, or

(ii) to any occupier or person concerned with the management of a terminal control point in the United Kingdom or of a place in the United Kingdom which is a customs approved area within the meaning of the Channel Tunnel (Customs and Excise) Order 1990(2);

and references in subsections (2B), (3) and (5) below to a control area are to a control area so designated.

(2B) Regulations made under this section may—

(a) provide that a notice given as mentioned in subsection (2A) above may specify conditions and restrictions to be observed in a control area; and

(b) require any person to whom such a notice is given to take all reasonable steps to secure that any such conditions or restrictions are observed.”;

(c) in subsection (3)—

(i) omit paragraph (a),

(ii) for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) the questions to be answered in a control area by train managers of through trains and shuttle trains and other persons on such trains, as to cases of epidemic, endemic or infectious disease in the train,”,

(iii) in paragraph (c) for the words “alighting from aircraft to answer” substitute “on or alighting from such trains to answer in a control area”,

(iv) for paragraph (d) substitute—

“(d) the detention of such trains and of persons on them,”, and

(v) in paragraph (e) for the words after “diseases” substitute “by train managers of and other persons on such trains,”;

(d) in subsection (4) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) may, notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, specify the Secretary of State as an authority, or as the sole authority, by whom they are to be enforced and executed, and”; and

(e) in subsection (5)—

(i) in paragraph (a) after the words “subsection (4)(a)” insert “or (aa)”, and

(ii) for the words “, vessel or aircraft” substitute “and any through train or shuttle train while it is in or constitutes a control area,”.

(1)

1984 c. 22.

(2)

S.I. 1990/2167.