Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) Regulations

Infectious Diseases Act

(Chapter 137, Section 64)

Rg 1

G.N. No. S 168/1977

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[1st August 1977]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) Regulations.

Definitions

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

“aircraft” includes any kind of craft which may be used for the conveyance of passengers or goods by air;

“airport” includes any civil and military airport used for the purpose of the arrival and departure of aircraft;

“arrival”, in relation to a vessel, means —

(a)	in the case of a seagoing vessel, arrival at a port; and
(b)	in the case of an aircraft, arrival at an airport,

and “arriving” or “arrived” has a corresponding meaning;

“container” means a transport equipment, other than a vehicle or conventional packing, which is —

(a)	of a permanent character, strong enough for repeated use;
(b)	specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading; and
(c)	fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly its transfer from one mode of transport to another;

“derat” means to render free of rats or rodents and “deratting” has a corresponding meaning;

“infected area” means any area declared to be an infected area under section 21 of the Act;

“infected vessel” means any vessel —

(a)	which has a case of cholera on board or on which a case of cholera occurred within 5 days before the arrival of the vessel;
(b)	which has a case of plague on board, or on which a case of plague occurred more than 6 days after embarkation of the infected person, or on which plague-infected rodents are found; or
(c)	which has a case of yellow fever on board, or on which a case of yellow fever occurred at the time of departure or during the voyage;

“pilot” means a pilot engaged by the Port of Singapore Authority;

“suspected vessel” means any vessel which —

(a)	in respect of cholera —
(i)	had a case of cholera on board at the time of departure or during the voyage but on which no fresh case of cholera occurred within 5 days before arrival; or
(ii)	has arrived within 5 days of departure from an infected area;
(b)	in respect of plague —
(i)	had a case of plague within 6 days after embarkation of the infected person;
(ii)	is found to have an unusual mortality of rodents the cause of which is not determined; or
(iii)	has on board a person who has been exposed to pulmonary plague and has not been isolated for a period of 6 days, reckoned from the date of last exposure to infection, before departure; or
(c)	in respect of yellow fever —
(i)	has arrived from an infected port or from a port in close relation with an endemic centre of yellow fever after a voyage of less than 6 days or after a longer voyage if there is reason to believe that the vessel may be carrying adult mosquitoes; or
(ii)	has or had on board a case of yellow fever at the time of departure or during the voyage.

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