The Public Health (International Trains) Regulations 1994

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“animal” means—

(a) any mammal except man; and

(b) any four–footed beast whether or not a mammal;

“designated customs approved area” means a customs approved area which has been designated as a control area in accordance with regulation 5(c)(ii);

“designated shuttle control area” means a part of the tunnel system which has been designated as a control area in accordance with regulation 5(b);

“designated terminal control point” means a terminal control point which has been designated as a control area in accordance with regulation 5(c)(i);

“enforcement authority” means—

(a)

in relation to any place in England or Wales, the authority (or authorities) by whom these Regulations are to be enforced and executed at that place in accordance with regulation 10;

(b)

in relation to any function to be executed and enforced on board any through train in accordance with regulation 9, the Secretary of State;

“freight terminal area” means any place in England or Wales at which a freight service begins or terminates its journey other than a designated customs approved area;

“freight service” means any international service other than a shuttle service or a passenger service;

“international train” means any shuttle train or through train;

“international service” has the same meaning as in section 13(6) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987;

“next stopping place” means—

(a)

if the train is part of a passenger service or a shuttle service, the next stopping place at which the train is due to stop; or

(b)

if the train is part of a freight service, the next stopping place through which the train is due to pass;

“passenger service” means any international service—

(a)

which uses rolling stock designed for the carriage of passengers by way of the tunnel system; or

(b)

which comprises solely of a locomotive which is used by a train operator for moving such rolling stock,

other than a shuttle service;

“rolling stock” includes any railway vehicle, but does not include—

(a)

any vehicle other than a railway vehicle; or

(b)

any tank, container, pallet, package, fixture or fitting which is not an integral part of a railway vehicle;

“serious epidemic, endemic or infectious disease” does not include venereal disease or infection with human immunodeficiency virus;

“shuttle service” and “shuttle train” have the same meaning as in section 1(9) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987;

“sick traveller” means a person on an international train who has a serious epidemic, endemic or infectious disease, or in relation to whom there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he has such a disease;

“stopping place” means—

(a)

in relation to a shuttle train which enters the United Kingdom, a designated shuttle control area;

(b)

in relation to a through train which enters the United Kingdom as part of a passenger service, a designated terminal control point;

(c)

in relation to a through train which enters the United Kingdom as part of a freight service, a designated customs approved area;

“stowaway animal” means any animal, whether dead or alive, which is on board an international train, except one which—

(a)

is lawfully being transported through the tunnel system; or

(b)

is being imported into Great Britain contrary to any order made, or which has effect as if made, under section 10 of the Animal Health Act 1981(1);

“through train” means a train, other than a shuttle train, which for the purposes of sections 11 and 12 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 is engaged on an international service;

“train manager” means, in relation to a through train or a shuttle train, the person designated as train manager by the person operating the international service on which the train is engaged;

“train operator” means a person operating any international service, except where the service is operated by a joint international undertaking and part of that undertaking is a British undertaking, in which case it means the British undertaking which forms part of that joint international undertaking;

“tunnel system” has the same meaning as in section 1(7) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987;

“viral haemorrhagic fever” has the same meaning as in the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988(2).

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—

(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;

(b) in a regulation to a lettered or numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that letter or number;

(c) in a paragraph to a lettered sub–paragraph is to the sub–paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter.

(1)

1981 c. 22; amended by article 2(1) of and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1990/2371, and article 8(1) of and paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 5 to S.I. 1993/1813.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1546.