Health Act 1956

Quarantine

97: People liable to quarantine

You could also call this:

"Who has to stay isolated to stop diseases spreading?"

You are liable to quarantine if you are on a craft that is liable to quarantine or if you get off one. You can also be liable to quarantine if a medical officer of health thinks you might have a quarantinable disease. The medical officer of health can think this if they believe you have been exposed to a disease in the 14 days before you arrived in New Zealand.

You might be infected with a quarantinable disease, which is a disease that can be stopped from spreading by quarantine. The medical officer of health needs to have reasonable grounds to believe or suspect this. They can believe you were exposed to a disease that is now a quarantinable disease, even if it was not one when you were exposed.

The rules about quarantine are part of the Health Act 1956, which was amended by the Health Amendment Act 2006. This means the law about quarantine has been changed to keep people safe from diseases. You can find more information about the law on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 4Quarantine

97People liable to quarantine

  1. A person is liable to quarantine if he or she is on board, or disembarks from, a craft that is liable to quarantine.

  2. This subsection applies to a person liable to quarantine if the medical officer of health believes or suspects, on reasonable grounds,—

  3. that he or she is infected with a quarantinable disease; or
    1. that, within the 14 days before he or she arrived in New Zealand, he or she has been exposed to a disease that (whether or not it was a quarantinable disease at the time of the believed or suspected exposure) is a quarantinable disease.
      Notes
      • Section 97: replaced, on , by section 10(1) of the Health Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 86).