Infectious Diseases Act
(Chapter 137, Section 64)
Infectious Diseases (Quarantine) Regulations
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 26 of the Act;
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“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.