PART II 3.—(1) The master, owner or agent of any vessel approaching any port or other area in Singapore shall, if any person on board has signs or symptoms which may be indicative of any infectious disease or if there are any circumstances requiring the attention of a Port Health Officer, notify a Port Health Officer either directly or through an agent by a wireless message, or cable, giving the information required under the First Schedule.| (2) Any wireless message so required to be sent shall reach a Port Health Officer not more than 24 and not less than 12 hours before the time at which the vessel is expected to arrive in the port or other area. |
| (3) The cost of sending messages under this regulation shall be borne by the master, owner or agent of the vessel. |
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4.—(1) Infected, suspected or other vessels shall be subjected to the measures set out in the Second Schedule insofar as they are applicable to those vessels, or such other measures which a Port Health Officer thinks necessary.(2) The master or agent of any vessel or the consignee of any cargo transported in any container or the agent of the consignee shall —| (a) | declare to a Port Health Officer any container or cargo which has originated from a plague infected area; and | | (b) | carry out such measures in respect of the cargo or container as a Port Health Officer may direct. |
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| Passenger and crew lists to be delivered to Port Health Officer |
| 5. Where a Port Health Officer so directs, a copy of the passenger and crew lists of any vessel, including the full addresses of each passenger and crew, shall be lodged with him as soon as possible after the arrival of the vessel in Singapore. |
| Obligation of ships from infected area |
6.—(1) Any ship upon entering Singapore waters from any infected area shall show the appropriate signals set out in the Third Schedule, anchor at a quarantine anchorage, and shall be inspected by a Port Health Officer, except that the requirement to anchor at the quarantine anchorage shall not extend to —| (a) | any mail ship —| (i) | which has been exempted by the Minister; | | (ii) | which is carrying no deck passengers; | | (iii) | the master of which has notified a Port Health Officer by wireless message or signal, not less than 12 hours before the arrival of the ship, that there is no case or suspected case of infectious disease on board; and | | (iv) | the master of which produces on arrival in port a signed entry declaration in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule; or |
| | (b) | ships arriving at any area in Singapore directly from a previous port of call in Singapore where exemption has been granted by a Port Health Officer in writing in the Form A set out in the Fifth Schedule. |
| (2) No ship which has proceeded to a quarantine anchorage shall leave the quarantine anchorage without a pratique in the Form B set out in the Fifth Schedule. After receiving such pratique the ship shall lower the quarantine signal. |
| (3) No pilot shall remove any ship from a quarantine anchorage until he has sight of the pratique granted to the ship. |
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| Declaration by master or surgeon of ship |
7.—(1) On arrival in Singapore of a ship —| (a) | which has come from any area in which at the time of its departure a dangerous infectious disease existed; | | (b) | on which a case of dangerous infectious disease occurred before its departure from another infected area or during the voyage; or | | (c) | on which a person apparently suffering from an infectious disease is travelling, |
| the master or surgeon of the ship shall give such information in writing to the pilot or a Port Health Officer who comes alongside or on board the ship. |
(2) Such ship shall be anchored at a quarantine anchorage if the pilot or a Port Health Officer so directs and shall remain there until a Port Health Officer has granted a pratique:| Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a mail ship exempted under regulation 6(1)(a) and to which neither paragraph (1)(b) nor (1)(c) applies. |
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| 8. The master, owner or agent of a ship which is required by the Act or by these Regulations to anchor at a quarantine anchorage shall comply with the provisions as to the display of signals set out in the Third Schedule. |
| Port Health Officer may order removal of ship |
| 9. A Port Health Officer may, if he thinks fit, order a ship to be moved to any part of the quarantine anchorage, and the master of the ship shall comply with that order. |
10.—(1) A pilot may board a ship displaying any of the signals set out in the Third Schedule for the purpose of taking the ship to the quarantine anchorage only after producing such certificate of vaccination as may be required by a Port Health Officer; and he shall remain on board until permitted to leave by a Port Health Officer. No member of his crew or any other person shall board the ship unless authorised by a Port Health Officer.| (2) The pilot shall, if any person on board the ship is sick or has symptoms which may be indicative of any infectious disease or if there is a death on board during the voyage, take the ship directly to the quarantine anchorage and notify a Port Health Officer by wireless message forthwith. He shall not take that ship to any other anchorage without the permission of a Port Health Officer. |
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| No ship to anchor or ply at quarantine anchorage |
11.—(1) No ship shall enter or remain at a quarantine anchorage unless required to do so by the Act or these Regulations, or with the written permission of a Port Health Officer.| (2) No boat, launch, bumboat or harbour craft shall enter or ply within a quarantine anchorage except those authorised to do so under any written law or with the written permission of a Port Health Officer. |
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| Declaration by master or surgeon of ship |
12.—(1) For the purpose of section 23 of the Act, the master or surgeon of any ship arriving in Singapore shall make and sign an entry declaration according to the Form set out in the Fourth Schedule as to the number of crew and passengers, the presence or prevalence of any infectious disease on board during the voyage, the number of deaths and such other particulars as are required in that Form.| (2) Such a declaration purporting to be signed by the master or surgeon shall be deemed to have been so signed. |
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| Restriction of communication with ships in quarantine |
13.—(1) No communication (except by means of signals) with any ship displaying any of the signals set out in the Third Schedule shall be made except with the written permission of a Port Health Officer in the Form C set out in the Fifth Schedule.| (2) No person, except the master, crew, passengers or a pilot permitted under regulation 10 shall board or remain on board such a ship without such permission. |
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| Duty of master or agent to prevent unauthorised boarding |
| 14. The master or agent of any ship required to proceed to and anchor at a quarantine anchorage shall prevent any unauthorised person from boarding the ship and detain any such person who has boarded the ship. |
| Crew of infected ship not to be signed off without permission |
| 15. Where the quarantine period of any ship for a dangerous infectious disease, reckoned from the date of isolation of the last case of the disease, is not completed, the master, owner or agent shall not sign off or discharge any crew member of the ship without the written permission of a Port Health Officer. |
| Crew member not to be discharged without permission |
| 16. The master of any ship shall not discharge a crew member who has been required by a Port Health Officer to undergo further medical examination or health procedures without first obtaining the written approval of a Port Health Officer. |
| When pratique to be granted |
17.—(1) A ship to which the appropriate prescribed measures have been applied to the satisfaction of a Port Health Officer shall be granted pratique notwithstanding the presence on board of transit passengers whose quarantine period in respect of a dangerous infectious disease is not completed.| (2) Any transit passenger may be allowed by a Port Health Officer to leave the ship subject to such conditions as he may impose. |
| (3) A transit passenger may be detained in a quarantine station for observation until either the appropriate incubation period of the disease in respect of which he is detained is completed or until the ship is ready to sail whichever is the sooner. Such transit passenger may be allowed to remain on board the ship if the master undertakes in writing to accept liability in case the transit passenger leaves the ship without the written permission of a Port Health Officer. |
| (4) If any such passenger on whose behalf the master has accepted liability leaves the ship, the master shall be guilty of an offence and the passenger shall be arrested without warrant and detained at a quarantine station until the incubation period of the disease in respect of which the ship is in quarantine is completed. |
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| 18. Any ship of war arriving from an infected area may be granted pratique on the production of an entry declaration in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule, signed by the surgeon and countersigned by the commander of the ship, to the effect that no case of a dangerous infectious disease has occurred on board during the voyage. |
| Radio provisional pratique |
19.—(1) A Port Health Officer may grant provisional pratique by radio to such ships from infected areas and impose such conditions or requirements as he may think necessary.| (2) The master, owner or agent requesting for the provisional pratique by radio shall comply with all the conditions and requirements of a Port Health Officer. |
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| Duty of master of aircraft from infected area |
20.—(1) The master of any aircraft arriving in Singapore from an infected area shall, if required by a Port Health Officer —| (a) | proceed to a specified place at the airport to disembark passengers and crew; and | | (b) | stop at or near a place marked by the appropriate signals as set out in the Third Schedule and shall remain there until a Port Health Officer grants permission to proceed. |
| (2) No person, except such persons as are necessary for the maintenance and operation of the aircraft on the ground, shall approach or be within 30 metres of the aircraft or communicate (except by means of signals) with the aircraft, passengers or crew thereof. |
| (3) Any master or person who contravenes or fails to comply with this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000. |
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| Medical inspection of aircraft crew and passengers |
21.—(1) A Port Health Officer may require that all passengers and crew of an aircraft shall remain on board the aircraft until such time as he has performed such medical examination and carried out such health procedures as he may think fit.| (2) All disembarking passengers and crew from an aircraft shall, unless exempted by a Port Health Officer, present themselves for health clearance and shall not leave the airport without obtaining such clearance. |
| (3) The master, owner or agent of an aircraft shall ensure that all disembarking passengers and crew are presented to a Port Health Officer for health clearance. |
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| Duty of master or agent of aircraft to inform of infectious disease |
| 22. The master or agent of any aircraft in which any case of an infectious disease has occurred or is present shall immediately inform a Port Health Officer of the case. |
| Vaccination of crew and passengers |
23.—(1) A Port Health Officer may direct the master or agent of any vessel, on which a case of any dangerous infectious disease has occurred during her current voyage or after arrival in Singapore, to require the vaccination of any crew member or passenger thereof.| (2) Any crew member or passenger required to be vaccinated under paragraph (1) who refuses to be vaccinated shall not be permitted to land in Singapore. |
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| Entry of persons in Singapore without vaccination |
24. Whenever any person enters or lands in Singapore in contravention of regulation 23(2) —| (a) | he shall be guilty of an offence; | | (b) | the master, owner or agent of the vessel by which he was brought to Singapore shall also be guilty of an offence; and | | (c) | the court, on convicting that person, may make an order directing that the person shall be vaccinated within a specified time and that in default of that order he shall be returned as soon as possible to his place of embarkation by or at the expense of the agents of the vessel by which he was brought to Singapore; or if he came by land, to his country of origin or to the place from which he entered Singapore, in either case at his own expense. |
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| Report of disease and surveillance |
25.—(1) Every person who arrives in Singapore by means of any vessel or vehicle shall if so required —| (a) | undertake in the Form D set out in the Fifth Schedule to report to a Port Health Officer without delay at such place, intervals and time for surveillance as a Port Health Officer may specify; | | (b) | report any sickness from which he suffers within 6 days of his arrival to a Port Health Officer; and | | (c) | deposit with a Port Health Officer a sum not exceeding $100 for the due execution of the undertaking given under sub-paragraph (a). |
| (2) Any person who fails to enter into such an undertaking or is in breach of the terms of the undertaking shall be arrested and isolated at a quarantine station at his own cost and expense. A Port Health Officer shall also forfeit the money deposited under paragraph (1) upon such breach of the undertaking. |
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