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.”.