Statutory Instruments made by the National Assembly for Wales

" local authority".

(a) provide the National IHR Focal Point with the current contact details of each authorised port within its district;

(b) ensure that no ship sanitation certificate is issued without prior inspection by an authorised officer with appropriate expertise;

(c) ensure that any control measures required under regulations 18A(1)(a)(ii)(aa), 18B(3)(a)(i) and (4)(a)(i) are carried out by or under the supervision of an authorised officer with appropriate expertise.".

(a) appoint such medical practitioners, in addition to their medical officer, as may be necessary for the proper enforcement and execution of these Regulations;

(b) give directions from time to time as to the duties which are to be performed by any medical practitioner so appointed or any other officer authorised to enforce and execute these Regulations;

(c) provide or arrange for the provision of—


(i) premises or waiting rooms for the medical inspection and examination of persons;

(ii) premises for the temporary isolation of persons under these Regulations;

(iii) apparatus or other means for cleansing, disinfecting or disinsecting ships, persons or clothing and other articles;



(d) arrange for the reception into hospital of persons requiring to be removed to a hospital under these Regulations;

(e) arrange for the provision of means of transport for the conveyance of persons to any premises referred to in paragraph (c) or to a hospital;

(f) do all such other things as in its opinion or the opinion of the Secretary of State, as the case may be, are necessary to enable the provisions of these Regulations to be complied with.".

" local authority".

(a) with a view to the treatment of persons affected with any epidemic, endemic or infectious disease and for preventing the spread of such diseases; or

(b) for preventing other danger to public health.".

" local authority".

" (a) in the case of an infectious disease—


(i) cause the person to be removed from the ship and isolated or sent to hospital or to some other suitable place approved for that purpose by the local authority;

(ii) in the case of cholera, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever, place such person under surveillance for the appropriate period specified in regulation 36(1); or

(iii) except as provided in regulation 31, the medical officer may, by notice in writing to the master, prohibit the removal of the person or the disembarkation from the ship without the consent in writing of the medical officer;".

" or tuberculosis".

" or tuberculosis";

" or other danger to public health".

(a) send by appropriate means before arrival, either directly to the local authority or through an agent approved by the local authority, a radio message, fax, email or other communication complying with paragraph (3) of this regulation; or

(b) where it is not possible to comply with sub-paragraph (a) before arrival, notify the local authority immediately on arrival of the presence on board of such infectious disease or tuberculosis, symptoms or other similar circumstances.".

" local authority".

" or tuberculosis".

(a) if the ship is within the area of an authorised port, an authorised officer must—


(i) inspect the ship to prevent danger to public health or the spread of infection with a view to issuing a ship sanitation certificate; and

(ii) either—


(aa) carry out or cause to be carried out under the supervision of an authorised officer control measures necessary for the control of danger to public health or the spread of infection with a view to issuing a ship sanitation certificate; or

(bb) otherwise take or cause to be taken any steps which that officer considers necessary to satisfy him or herself that the ship does not present a danger to public health and is free of infection;



(b) if the ship is not within the area of an authorised port, an authorised officer must—



(i) consult with a customs officer; and

(ii) direct the ship to proceed at the risk of the owner of the ship to an area of an authorised port convenient to the ship and the customs officer.

    (2) If an authorised officer after inspecting a ship under paragraph (1)(a) is satisfied—

(a) that the ship is exempt from control measures, that officer must issue or cause to be issued a Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate (provided he or she has complied with paragraph (3)); or

(b) that control measures have been completed to the officer's satisfaction, he or she must—


(i) issue or cause to be issued a Ship Sanitation Control Certificate; and

(ii) note or cause to be noted on the certificate the evidence found and the control measures taken.

    (3) An authorised officer must wherever possible issue or cause to be issued a Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate only if the inspection of the ship was carried out when the ship and holds—

(a) were empty, or

(b) contained only ballast or other material of such a nature or so disposed as to make a thorough inspection of the holds possible.

" plague, cholera, yellow fever or smallpox".

" (a) any person disembarking from the ship who has come from an area infected with cholera, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever; and".

" (a) may examine any person who proposes to embark on the ship if that officer has reasonable grounds for believing the person to be suffering from plague, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever; and—


(i) if after an examination the medical officer is of the opinion that the person shows symptoms of one of the diseases, the medical officer shall prohibit the embarkation of the person;

(ii) the time and place of an examination shall be arranged—


(aa) to take into account any other formalities; and

(bb) to avoid delay;"; a

(b) ym mharagraff (c) a pharagraff (d) ill dau, yn lle "health authority" rhodder—

" competent authority".

" subject to the International Health Regulations or with any other disease".

(a) danger to public health from a ship arriving in its district, or

(b) the spread of infection from a ship leaving its district.

    (2) The services mentioned in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the inspection of the ship, or the application of measures required to be applied to the ship, in connection with the issue of a ship sanitation certificate in respect of the ship;

(b) the extension of the period of validity of a ship sanitation certificate; or

(c) the application, at the master's request, of any other measure that the master of a ship is required by these Regulations to carry out.

    (3) A charge for a service under paragraph (1)—

(a) must not exceed the actual cost of the service rendered;

(b) must be—


(i) published at least ten days in advance of being levied;

(ii) described sufficiently that the owner or master of the ship is reasonably informed of the likely amount of the charge; and



(c) must not be discriminatory, in particular—



(i) must not be levied so as to make a distinction based on the nationality, registry or ownership of the ship or containers, cargo, baggage, goods or postal parcels concerned; and

(ii) must not distinguish between national and foreign ships or containers, cargo, baggage, goods or postal parcels.

    (4) A local authority may require the whole or part of the amount of a charge for a service under paragraph (1) to be paid or deposited with it before the service is performed.

    (5) At the master's request, a local authority must provide the master of a ship with particulars in writing free of charge of—

(a) measures taken for which a charge under paragraph (1) is made; and

(b) the reasons why the measures were taken.

    (6) At the request of a person in relation to whom measures have been taken, or of a person in possession of articles in relation to which measures have been taken, an authorised officer must provide particulars in writing free of charge of the measures taken for which a charge under paragraph (1) is made.

    (7) Particulars under paragraph (6) shall include the date on which the measures were taken.".

" Additional measures with respect to some diseases".

" A Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate"; a

" B Ships which have been in areas infected with plague".

" Rabies or viral haemorrhagic fever".

" Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate".