Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · s 88

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s 88Detention of persons arriving otherwise than by sea

(1)

The health officer may detain any person who is found on arrival in Brunei Darussalam otherwise than by sea to be suffering from an infectious disease, dysentery, measles, mumps, contagious ophthalmia, malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis, syphilis, or trachoma until such time as the disease is no longer communicable to other people.

(2)

If the disease is pulmonary tuberculosis, leprosy, syphilis or trachoma, and the diseased person is not a native of

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Brunei Darussalam, such person shall, unless specially exempted by the Minister, be returned to his place of origin or departure at his own expense or at the expense of the owners of the conveyance in which he arrived in Brunei Darussalam.