PART III | VESSELS IN PORT AND DEPARTURE |
| Master, etc., to report presence of infectious disease on board |
26.—(1) The master, owner or agent of any vessel in any port in Singapore shall, if a case or suspected case of dangerous infectious disease is found on board his vessel, immediately stop the working of cargo, detain all persons on board and notify a Port Health Officer.| (2) In the case of a ship, the master shall display the appropriate signals as set out in the Third Schedule and shall forthwith remove his ship to a quarantine anchorage. |
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| If without a surgeon, master, etc., to report a case showing special symptoms |
27. Where any vessel in any port in Singapore does not have a surgeon on board, the master, owner or agent shall immediately inform a Port Health Officer of any case of —| (a) | severe diarrhoea with or without vomitting, accompanied by cramps and collapse; or | | (b) | jaundice accompanied by fever or of fever attended with glandular swellings, |
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28.—(1) The master of every vessel shall —| (a) | at all times keep his vessel free from rodents and the plague vector; and | | (b) | cause the vessel to be periodically fumigated. |
| (2) A Port Health Officer may, by notice in writing require the master, owner or agent of any vessel to fumigate his vessel within 24 hours or within such lesser period as he may specify. |
| (3) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
| (4) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
| (5) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
| (6) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
| (7) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
| (8) [Deleted by S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
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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. |
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| (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. [S 492/2007 wef 24/09/2007] |
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| Vessels harbouring rodents or plague vectors |
| 29. Where it appears to a Port Health Officer that any vessel, part thereof or anything therein is or may become favourable to the harbouring or propagation of rodents or plague vectors, he may direct the master, owner or agent to take such specified measures with regard to the vessel or for the destruction or removal of anything therein as may bring them into a condition unfavourable to the harbouring or propagation of rodents or plague vectors. |
| Vessels to be kept free from insects and vermins |
30.—(1) The master, owner or agent of every vessel shall —| (a) | cause his vessel to be periodically treated for insects and vermin; and | | (b) | if directed by the Port Health Officer, cause his vessel to be treated with insecticide or pesticide prior to arrival in Singapore. |
| (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a Port Health Officer may treat any vessel on arrival with insecticide or pesticide. |
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31.—(1) If a Port Health Officer has reason to believe that any water or food intended for human use or consumption on board any vessel is unfit for such use or consumption he may order that that water or food, or water or food from a similar source, shall not be supplied to any vessel until he is satisfied, after considering any analyst’s report on that water or food that it is fit for human use or consumption.| (2) Any person who refuses or fails to comply with an order of a Port Health Officer under paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000. |
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| Sanitary measures for food |
32.—(1) A Port Health Officer may direct the master or agent of any vessel loading or obtaining the supply of water or food thereon to comply with such sanitary measures as the Port Health Officer may think fit.| (2) Any person who fails to comply with the directions of a Port Health Officer under paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence. |
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| Nuisances on board vessel |
33.—(1) If a Port Health Officer on inspection of any vessel in port finds any decaying animal or vegetable matter, fruit, water, rubbish, dirt, filth or other matter, which in his opinion is likely to be injurious to health or to create a nuisance, he may serve a notice on the master, agent or owner of the vessel to abate the nuisance within such period as he may specify in the notice.| (2) If the nuisance is not abated within that time, the master, agent or owner shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction. |
| (3) If a Port Health Officer on inspection of any vessel finds any part thereof to be in a dirty or insanitary state, he may order the master, owner or agent of the vessel to carry out to his satisfaction such cleansing, disinfection, whitewashing or painting as he may direct. |
| (4) Any master, owner or agent who neglects to comply with any order by a Port Health Officer under paragraph (3) within such time as he may specify shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction. |
| (5) At the discretion of a Port Health Officer, any offensive articles mentioned in this regulation may be discharged, and the vessel may, at the owner’s or agent’s expense, be disinfected under the supervision of a Port Health Officer. |
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34.—(1) The master, owner or agent of any vessel in any port in Singapore shall immediately report to a Port Health Officer and to the police any death occurring on his vessel, and no corpse shall under any circumstances be landed or be caused to be landed without the permission of a Port Health Officer in the Form F set out in the Fifth Schedule.| (2) Where a death has occurred during the current voyage on board any vessel which does not have a surgeon, the master shall give information thereof to a Port Health Officer not less than 24 hours before reaching the port in the case of a ship and, in the case of an aircraft, not less than 30 minutes before landing. Such corpse shall not be landed or be caused to be landed without the permission of a Port Health Officer in that Form F. |
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| Death on boat and other harbour craft |
| 35. If a death occurs on any boat or other harbour craft in the waters of Singapore or in any river of Singapore within port limits, the owner or boatman or the nearest relative of the deceased, or any person finding the corpse shall report the death to the police and to a Port Health Officer. Such corpse shall not be landed or caused to be landed without the permission of a Port Health Officer in the Form F set out in the Fifth Schedule. |
| 36. In giving his permission for a corpse to be landed or caused to be landed under regulation 34 or 35, the Port Health Officer may impose such conditions as he may think fit. |
| Duty of medical practitioner |
| 37. Every medical practitioner who is aware that any passenger on board any vessel or who was recently disembarked from any vessel or any crew member or any person employed in connection with any vessel in any port in Singapore is suffering from a dangerous infectious disease shall forthwith give notice thereof by telephone and in writing to a Port Health Officer. |
| Prohibition of embarkation of persons with infectious disease |
| 38. A Port Health Officer may prohibit the embarkation on any vessel of any person with symptoms or signs of any infectious disease until the Port Health Officer is satisfied that the person can no longer spread the infection. |
| Sanitary measures at infected ports and on departure of ships |
| 39. When any area in Singapore is infected with any dangerous infectious disease, a Port Health Officer may, within 12 hours of the receipt of the notice of departure, visit any vessel and medically examine any person on board the vessel or any person proposing to embark thereon. If after examination the Port Health Officer is of the opinion that any person shows symptoms of any dangerous infectious disease or is a contact of any person with such disease he shall prohibit the embarkation of that person. |
| Issue of certificates when measures are completed |
| 40. Where the master of a vessel is required by a Port Health Officer to carry out any sanitary measures in respect of the vessel, a Port Health Officer may on request furnish to any interested person a certificate specifying the nature of any measures employed with regard to the vessel, its cargo, its passengers or passengers’ luggage. |
| 41. A Port Health Officer may at the request of the master of a ship about to depart from Singapore issue to him a Bill of Health in respect of the ship in the Form G set out in the Fifth Schedule. |
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