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Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · s 64

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s 64Duty of master or surgeon

(1)

On the arrival at any local area of Brunei

Darussalam of a ship —

(a)

which has come from any local area in which at the time of its departure an infectious disease existed;

or

(b)

in which a case of infectious disease occurred before its departure from another local area or during the voyage; or

(c)

in which a person apparently suffering from an infectious disease is travelling, the master, surgeon, chinchew or supercargo of such ship shall truly declare the same in writing to the pilot or port officer or port health officer who comes alongside or on board such ship.

(2)

Such ship shall be anchored at a quarantine anchorage if the pilot or port officer or port health officer shall so direct, and shall remain there until the port health officer has granted pratique in writing in the prescribed form:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a mail-ship exempted under section 60(1)(a) to which neither paragraph (b)

nor paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section applies.