Part 4Quarantine
97DPowers and duties of medical officer of health or health protection officer in relation to quarantinable diseases
If a craft arrives in New Zealand carrying a person to whom section 97(2) applies, the medical officer of health or a health protection officer may—
- require the person to be examined:
- require to be taken from the person any bodily sample the officer may reasonably require:
- require to be taken from the craft or any thing in or on it any reasonable sample the officer may require:
- require the captain of the craft to take or help take any steps that, in the opinion of the medical officer of health or health protection officer, are reasonably necessary—
- to prevent the spread of infection by the person; or
- to destroy birds, insects, or rodents; or
- to remove or abate conditions on the craft likely to convey infection, including conditions that might facilitate the harbouring of vermin.
- to prevent the spread of infection by the person; or
A person whom subsection (1) empowers the medical officer of health or a health protection officer to examine or take a sample from must allow the officer to examine him or her or (as the case requires) take the sample.
Notes
- Section 97D: inserted, on , by section 10(1) of the Health Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 86).