Health Act 1956

118 Regulations as to quarantine

• Regulations made under this Act may provide for all or any of the following matters:

  • (a) The procedure to be adopted in the inspection of ships or aircraft arriving in New Zealand and in the examination of persons on such ships or arriving by such aircraft; the conditions subject to which pratique may be granted; and generally the performance of quarantine:

  • (b) The measures of disinfection, including the disinfection of any things, to be adopted in respect of any ship or aircraft on which any infectious disease exists or is reported to exist:

  • (c) The isolation and treatment of persons arriving in New Zealand who are or are suspected to be suffering from any quarantinable disease or who have or are suspected to have been exposed to the infection of a quarantinable disease or who are otherwise liable to quarantine under section 97 of this Act:

  • (cc) The payment by any person who has been isolated pursuant to regulations made under this section of the reasonable cost of his treatment and maintenance while in isolation, and the exemption of any person, in whole or in part, from liability to make such payment:

  • (d) The release of persons from quarantine, either unconditionally or subject to conditions as to medical surveillance or otherwise:

  • (e) The exemption of ships, aircraft, persons, or things of any specified classes, or in any specified circumstances or classes of circumstances, from the operation of any of the provisions of Part 4 of this Act or of any regulations under this Act, either wholly or in part or subject to conditions:

  • (f) The powers, functions, and duties of Medical Officers of Health and other officers in respect of quarantine or of any of the aforesaid matters.

  Compare: 1920 No 45 s 132(1)(u)-(w); 1940 No 17 s 11(5)

  Paragraph (c) was substituted, and (cc) was inserted, as from 3 November 1964, by section 8 Health Amendment Act 1964 (1964 No 34).

  Paragraph (f) was amended, as from 1 April 1983, by section 4(2) Health Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 34) by substituting the words “Medical Officers of Health” for the words “Port Health Officers, Medical Officers of Health,”.