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Part V · Prevention of the Introduction or Transmission of Infectious Disease

69. Detention of passengers at quarantine station

(1)

The port health officer may detain at a quarantine station any passenger who is found on arrival in Brunei

Darussalam 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 citizen of

Brunei Darussalam, such person shall, unless specially exempted by the Minister, be returned to his place of origin or embarkation by or at the expense of the agents of the ship by which he arrived in Brunei Darussalam.

(3)

Any person refusing prophylactic vaccination against any dangerous infectious disease may be detained for observation by the port health officer for a period not exceeding the quarantine period for such disease.

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