Health Act 1956

Regulations

118: Regulations as to quarantine

You could also call this:

"Rules to Keep New Zealand Safe from Sick People Arriving by Ship or Plane"

Regulations can be made to decide how ships or aircraft arriving in New Zealand are inspected. You might be examined when you arrive by ship or aircraft. Regulations can also decide when a ship or aircraft can come into New Zealand without restrictions, which is called being granted pratique. Regulations can provide for the disinfection of ships, aircraft, or things on them if there is an infectious disease. You might be isolated if you arrive in New Zealand with a quarantinable disease, or if you have been exposed to one, as stated in section 97. If you are isolated, you might have to pay for your treatment and maintenance while you are in isolation, but you might be exempt from paying in some cases. Regulations can also decide when you can be released from quarantine, and whether you have to follow certain conditions after you are released. Some ships, aircraft, people, or things might be exempt from quarantine rules, as stated in Part 4, or from some regulations. Medical officers of health and other officers have certain powers and duties when it comes to quarantine.

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Part 6Regulations

118Regulations as to quarantine

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

  2. 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:
    1. 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:
      1. 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:
        1. 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:
          1. the release of persons from quarantine, either unconditionally or subject to conditions as to medical surveillance or otherwise:
            1. 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 or of any regulations under this Act, either wholly or in part or subject to conditions:
              1. the powers, functions, and duties of medical officers of health and other officers in respect of quarantine or of any of the aforesaid matters.
                Notes
                • Section 118(c): replaced, on , by section 8 of the Health Amendment Act 1964 (1964 No 34).
                • Section 118(cc): inserted, on , by section 8 of the Health Amendment Act 1964 (1964 No 34).
                • Section 118(f): amended, on , by section 4(2) of the Health Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 34).