Health Act 1956

Quarantine

108: Persons suffering from quarantinable disease

You could also call this:

"What happens if you're sick with a quarantinable disease when arriving in New Zealand"

If you are on a ship or arriving by aircraft and you have a quarantinable disease, the medical officer of health or health protection officer can take action. They can do this if they believe you have the disease or if they think you might get it because you were recently exposed to it. The medical officer of health or health protection officer can give you directions and take other steps as outlined in the regulations made under the Health Act 1956.

You might be given these directions if the medical officer of health or health protection officer has reasonable grounds to think you are sick or might get sick. They will follow the rules made under this Act when deciding what to do.

The medical officer of health or health protection officer has the power to make decisions about your care if you are suspected of having a quarantinable disease, as per the regulations made under the Health Act 1956, which was amended at some point.

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Part 4Quarantine

108Persons suffering from quarantinable disease

  1. If any person on board any ship, or arriving by any aircraft, is found to be suffering from any quarantinable disease, or is believed or suspected by the medical officer of health or health protection officer, on reasonable grounds, to be suffering from any such disease, or to have been so recently exposed to the infection of any such disease that he may suffer therefrom in consequence, the medical officer of health or health protection officer may do all such things and give all such directions in respect of that person as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.

Notes
  • Section 108: replaced, on , by section 4(2) of the Health Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 34).
  • Section 108: amended, on , pursuant to section 2(5) of the Health Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 99).