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Health Act 1956

Quarantine

97B: Detention of craft and people

You could also call this:

"Stopping crafts and people to check for serious diseases"

If you are on a craft that arrives in New Zealand, a medical officer of health or a health protection officer can stop you and your craft for inspection. They can do this if someone on the craft has died or become ill from a quarantinable disease during the voyage. They can also stop you if birds, insects, or rodents on the craft have died from unknown causes.

The officer must tell the person in charge of the airport or port about their decision to stop your craft. You cannot leave the airport or port until the officer gives written notice that you can go, as stated in section 97C. The person in charge of the airport or port must follow the officer's instructions and not let your craft leave until then.

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"People in quarantine must follow rules and share information to keep others safe"

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97C: Lifting of detention of craft, or

"When a boat or plane is no longer being held for health reasons"

Part 4Quarantine

97BDetention of craft and people

  1. The medical officer of health, a health protection officer, or a person acting under the written directions of the medical officer of health or a health protection officer, may direct that a craft and its passengers and crew be detained for inspection if—

  2. the craft has arrived in New Zealand; and
    1. it appears to the officer that, during the voyage of the craft,—
      1. a person on it has died, or become ill, from a quarantinable disease; or
        1. death not attributable to poison or other measures for destruction has occurred among birds, insects, or rodents on the craft.

        2. The medical officer of health or health protection officer must tell the person in charge of the airport or port concerned of any direction he or she gives under subsection (1); and that person must not allow the craft concerned to leave the airport or port until given written notice under section 97C of the lifting of the detention of the craft.

        Notes
        • Section 97B: inserted, on , by section 10(1) of the Health Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 86).