Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 21 Sep 2007

No. S 492

Infectious Diseases Act

(Chapter 137)

Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Infectious Diseases Act, the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 24th September 2007.

Amendment of regulation 28

2. Regulation 28 of the Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting paragraphs (3) to (8).

New regulation 28A

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 28, the following regulation:

“Ship sanitation measures

28A.—(1) A Port Health Officer may, by notice in writing, require the master, owner or agent of any vessel to take such appropriate measures to disinfect, decontaminate, disinsect or quarantine the vessel within 24 hours or within such shorter period as he may specify.

(2) The master, owner or agent of every ship shall, on the ship’s arrival at and departure from Singapore, produce a valid ship sanitation control certificate or valid ship sanitation control exemption certificate, as the case may be.

(3) A ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate, as the case may be, shall be issued only by the health authority of a port designated for that purpose by its national health administration and shall be in Form E set out in the Fifth Schedule.

(4) Every ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate produced under paragraph (2) shall be valid for 6 months and may be extended for a period of one month in the case of a ship proceeding to any port if the control or inspection, as the case may be, would be facilitated by the emptying of the holds due to take place at that port.

(5) The master, owner or agent of a ship shall, before the expiry of the existing ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate referred to in paragraph (2), apply to a Port Health Officer for the issue of a new ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate, as the case may be.

(6) A Port Health Officer may issue in respect of a ship —

(a)

a ship sanitation control certificate, if health control measures have been —

(i)	carried out on the ship when the holds are empty; and
(ii)	carried out to the satisfaction of the Port Health Officer; or

(b)

a ship sanitation control exemption certificate, if the Port Health Officer is satisfied that there is no evidence of infection or contamination on the ship.

(7) The master, owner or agent of a ship shall pay the fee for the inspection of the ship and the issue of any ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate as specified in the Sixth Schedule.”.

Deletion and substitution of Fourth Schedule

4. The Fourth Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“FOURTH SCHEDULE

Regulations 6, 12 and 18

Infectious Diseases Act
(Chapter 137)

Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) Regulations

Entry Declaration

”.

Amendment of Fifth Schedule

5. The Fifth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting Form E and substituting the following Form:

“FIFTH SCHEDULE

Regulation 28A

Form E

”.

Amendment of Sixth Schedule

6. The Sixth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “Deratting Certificate” in item 1 (1) and substituting the words “ship sanitation control certificate”;
(b)	by deleting the words “Deratting Exemption Certificate” in item 1 (2) and substituting the words “ship sanitation control exemption certificate”; and
(c)	by deleting the words “Deratting Certificate or Deratting Exemption Certificate” in item 7 (2) and substituting the words “ship sanitation control certificate or ship sanitation control exemption certificate”. [G.N. Nos. S 26/92; S 57/93]

Made this 19th day of September 2007.

TAN YONG SOON

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/38/2/Vol. 6; AG/LEG/SL/137/2003/1 Vol. 4]

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