This Act is here setting the provisions for preventing the introduction of infectious diseases (in person, animal or thing) into, and the spread of such diseases from and within, Gibraltar. The text is structured into V general Parts and related thematic Sections, as follows: Part I-General (Short title; Interpretation; Power to declare infectious disease; Rules; Offences); Part II-Procedure in regard to vessels (On approach vessels to hoist prescribed signals; All vessels to be visited on arrival; No one to board vessel before boarding officer; No person on board to quit before pratique granted; Suspected or infected vessel to be notified of intention to place it in quarantine; Master may refuse to submit to quarantine or removal; Placing vessel in quarantine; Vessels in quarantine to take up mooring appointed; Access to vessels and examination on oath; False answers and concealment of facts; Expenses of quarantine; No person to quit quarantined vessel without permission of health officer; Control of quarantined vessel; Breach of provisions relating to observation and surveillance; Evading examination and (if required) disinfection); Part III-Arrivals by land (Interpretation and application of Part III; Questions to persons endeavouring to enter by land; Persons to be refused admittance until examined; Offences); Part IV-Quarantine stations and isolation hospitals (Quarantine stations and isolation hospitals; Prohibition on taking articles from quarantine station or isolation hospital; Person not to leave or enter quarantine station or isolation hospital); Part V-Miscellaneous (Arrest without warrant; Exemption of Her Majesty's ships, etc). No person shall take on board or remove from or suffer or permit to be taken on board or removed from a vessel in quarantine any animal or thing except by and in accordance with the permission and the directions of the Captain of the Port. Where any infectious disease exists or is suspected to exist in any person, animal or thing on board of any vessel at Gibraltar, or where the boarding or health officer considers that the public health cannot otherwise be adequately safeguarded, he shall notify the master of such vessel of the intention of placing such vessel in quarantine or of requiring him to remove such vessel in quarantine to another part of the port for the purpose of dealing with such infection.
(المملكة المتحدة) جبل طارق · 1935-05-17