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Health Acts 1956-1993 (By Parliamentary Counsel)  011
IV: Quarantine
111   Power to board any ship and inspect




   111. Power to board any ship and inspect---[(1) The Medical Officer of
 Health or Health Protection Officer or any officer of the Ministry of
 Health or any person acting under the authority of a Medical Officer of
 Health or a Health Protection Officer may at any time board any ship in
 any port and enter and inspect any part of the ship, and inspect all
 animals and goods on board the ship, and the passenger list, and, with
 the prior authority of the Director-General, inspect the logbook and
 other ship's papers.]

   (2) Where the [Medical Officer of Health] boards any ship under this
 section he may require any person on board the ship who in his opinion
 may be suffering from any infectious disease to submit to any prescribed
 examination, and that person shall submit to such examination
 accordingly.
     Cf. 1920, No. 45, s. 129

       Subs. (1) was substituted for the original subs. (1) (as amended
     by s. 4 (2) of the Health Amendment Act 1982, and by s. 98 of the
     Area Health Boards Act 1988) by s. 30 (1) of the Health Amendment
     Act 1993.
       In subs. (2) the words in square brackets were substituted for the
     words ``Port Health Officer'' by s. 98 of the Area Health Boards Act
     1983.
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