The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, hereby makes the following Regulations :—

PART I. PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL.

1 Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Aircraft) Regulations, 1948.

2 Definitions.

2. In these Regulations—

the expression " the Act " means the Health Act, 1947 ;

the expression " aircraft coming from an infected locality " means an arriving aircraft—

(a) which within the preceding six days left or called at a locality included by reason of plague in the list kept in pursuance of Article 26 of these Regulations at the authorised airport at which it alights ; or

(b) which within the preceding five days left or called at a locality included by reason of cholera in the said list ; or

(c) which within the preceding twelve days left or called at a locality included by reason of typhus in the said list ; or

(d) which within the preceding fourteen days left or called at a locality included by reason of smallpox in the said list ; or

(e) which within the preceding six days left or called at a locality included by reason of yellow fever in the said list ; or

(f) which there is reason to believe may be carrying any potential mosquito vectors of yellow fever emanating from a locality included by reason of yellow fever in the said list ;

the expression " aircraft declaration of health " means a declaration in the form set forth in the Third Schedule to these Regulations or in a form substantially to the like effect or in such other form as may be approved by the Minister ;

the word " airport " means any definite area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart, or commonly used for affording facilities for the alighting and departure of aircraft ;

the expression " arriving aircraft " means an aircraft which has come from a foreign place and alighted at an authorised airport whether or not in the course of its voyage it has previously alighted in the State, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands and " arrival of an aircraft " shall be construed accordingly ;

the expression " authorised airport " means an airport approved as a customs airport in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Schedule in the Table to the Air Navigation (General Regulations) Order, 1947 (S.R. and O. No. 113 of 1947) or a customs-free airport in pursuance of the Customs-free Airport Act, 1947 (No. 5 of 1947) ;

the expression " chief medical officer " means a county medical officer or a city medical officer and includes also an assistant county medical officer or assistant city medical officer to whom duties under these Regulations have been assigned and any other medical officer authorised by the Minister or by a health authority with the consent of the Minister, to perform specific duties or exercise specific powers under these Regulations;

the word " commander " includes any person for the time being in charge of or in command of an aircraft ;

the expression " the Convention " means the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1933, as amended by the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1944 ;

the word " crew " includes any person having duties on board an aircraft in connection with the flying or the safety of the flight of the aircraft or employed on board in any way in the service of the aircraft, the passengers or the cargo, and in particular includes the commander;

the expression " designated officer " means an immigration officer, an officer of customs and excise or an officer of the Minister for Industry and Commerce designated to carry out duties at an airport ;

the word " dysentery " includes amoebic dysentery and bacillary dysentery ;

the expression "endemic yellow fever area " means an area defined as such in pursuance of the Convention ;

the word " foreign " means situate elsewhere than in the State, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands ;

the expression " health officer " means an officer of a health authority authorised by the health authority to enforce or execute any provisions of these Regulations ;

the expression " infected aircraft " means an aircraft which has on board a case or a suspected case of cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus or yellow fever, or which has had any such case on board and has not since been subjected to such measures prescribed or permitted by the Convention as are appropriate ;

the expression " infectious disease " means any of the diseases listed in the First Schedule to these Regulations ;

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Health ;

the expression " placed under surveillance " means that the person in relation to whom the expression is used is required to submit to medical examination and such inquiries as are necessary to ascertain his state of health and may include a requirement to report to a chief medical officer on arrival in his functional area and periodically thereafter ;

the expression " prescribed measures " in relation to cholera, plague, typhus or smallpox means such of the measures set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations as are appropriate, and in relation to yellow fever means such of the measures prescribed or permitted by the Convention as are appropriate and are considered necessary by the appropriate chief medical officer ;

the expression " recent vaccination " in relation to a person arriving by or proposing to embark on an aircraft means vaccination against smallpox which took place not earlier than three years and not later than fourteen days before the date of his arrival, or, as the case may be, the proposed date of his embarkation and was successful or gave an immune reaction of which there is evidence ;

the expression " responsible health authority " in relation to an airport means the health authority in whose functional area the airport is situate or, if the airport is situate in more than one functional area, the health authority specified by the Minister as the responsible health authority;

the expression " sanitary airport " means an authorised airport which has been recognised by the Minister as a sanitary airport under Article 5 of these Regulations ;

the word " typhus " means epidemic louse-borne typhus.

3 Commencement:

3. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st day of May, 1948.

4 Enforcement of Regulations

4. These Regulations shall, subject to any arrangement for joint action by health authorities under section 101 of the Act, be enforced and executed by every health authority through their appropriate officers.

5 Sanitary airports.

5.—(1) The Minister on being satisfied that there are at the disposal of the responsible health authority at an authorised airport—

(a) an organised medical service with a medical officer and at least one health inspector acting under his directions ;

(b) a place for medical inspection ;

(c) either a laboratory for the examination of suspected material or equipment for taking and despatching such material for examination in a laboratory ;

(d) facilities for the isolation, transport and care of the sick, for the isolation of contacts separately from the sick and for carrying out any other prophylactic measure in suitable premises either within the airport or in proximity to it ;

(e) the apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection, disinfestation, disinsecting, deratisation and any other measures prescribed by these Regulations ;

(f) a sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water ; and

(g) a proper and safe system for the disposal of excreta and refuse, and for the removal of waste water ;

and that the airport is as far as possible protected from rats, may recognise such airport as a sanitary airport.

(2) The Minister may designate any sanitary airport as a local area in accordance with Article 8 of the Convention.

(3) Any recognition or designation given or made under this Article of the Regulations shall have effect until it is withdrawn by the Minister and notice of every such recognition, designation and withdrawal shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil.

PART II. AIRCRAFT ARRIVING.

6 Duties of Commander.

6.—(1) The commander of an arriving aircraft on first arriving at an authorised airport in the State shall—

(a) deliver to the chief medical officer or to a health officer or designated officer for delivery to the chief medical officer a duly completed aircraft declaration of health and record the delivery thereof in the journey log-book of the aircraft ;

(b) if required by the chief medical officer, produce certificates concerning any health measures mentioned in the declaration ;

(c) answer all questions as to the health conditions on board which may be put to him by the chief medical officer, health officer, designated officer or person in charge of the airport, produce to any of those persons on request the journey log-book of the aircraft and furnish any of those persons with all such information and assistance as he may reasonably require for the purposes of these Regulations ;

(d) notify forthwith the chief medical officer or designated officer (whichever shall first visit the aircraft after its arrival) of any death on board the aircraft during the voyage caused otherwise than by accident, of any case or suspected case of infectious disease on the aircraft, of any person on board the aircraft who is known to him to be liable to be placed under surveillance, and of any circumstances on board which are likely to lead to infection or to the spread of infectious disease ; and

(e) comply with these Regulations and any directions or requirements given to or made of him in pursuance of these Regulations.

(2) Sub-article (1) of this Article shall not apply in a case where neither a member of the crew nor any other person leaves the aircraft and no cargo is discharged.

(3) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-article (1) of this Article shall not apply in a case where the commander satisfies the chief medical officer, health officer or designated officer that he has, during the course of the same voyage from a foreign place, complied with requirements similar to these contained in the said paragraphs at an airport in a specified area and has been permitted by the authority in charge of health precautions at that airport to continue the voyage.

(4) In this Article, the expression " specified area " means an area which is not a foreign place and which is specified by an order of the Minister, a notice of which is published in the Iris Oifigiúil, to be a specified area for the purposes of this Article.

7 Exemption from submission to requirements of Regulations in certain cases.

7.—(1) Where the commander of an arriving aircraft which alights at an authorised airport otherwise than at the termination of its voyage satisfies the chief medical officer that it is not intended that the aircraft shall alight elsewhere in the State except for the purpose of taking in supplies and informs such chief medical officer that he does not desire to submit to any of the requirements of these Regulations which may be applicable he shall subject to the provisions of sub-article (3) of this Article be at liberty to continue the voyage without such submission after notifying the chief medical officer of his intention to do so.

(2) Where the commander notifies the chief medical officer as aforesaid he shall not disembark passengers or discharge cargo except subject to such conditions as the chief medical officer may impose in conformity with the provisions of Article 57 of the Convention.

(3) If such an arriving aircraft has on board a case of yellow fever or comes from a locality included by reason of yellow fever in the list kept at that airport in pursuance of Article 26 of these Regulations, the chief medical officer may require that it shall be subjected to the prescribed measures.

8 Duties and powers of designated officers.

8.—(1) Where on the arrival of an aircraft in appears to a designated officer from information given to him by the commander or from answers to inquiries made by him or otherwise—

(a) that during the voyage there has been on the aircraft a death otherwise than as a result of an accident, or a case of illness which is or is suspected to be of an infectious nature ; or

(b) that the aircraft is an aircraft coming from an infected locality ; or

(c) that during the voyage death not attributable to poison or other measures for destruction has occurred among rats or mice on the aircraft ;

he shall detain the aircraft, its stores equipment and cargo, passengers and crew and shall report the matter forthwith to the person in charge of the airport and to the chief medical officer.

(2) If a designated officer receives in respect of an aircraft a notice in writing from the chief medical officer under Article 11 of these Regulations he shall, if he visits the aircraft before the chief medical officer, deliver the notice to the commander and take all reasonable steps to secure compliance therewith.

9 Cesser of detention of aircraft by designated officer.

9.—(1) The detention of an aircraft by a designated officer under these Regulations shall cease as soon as the chief medical officer has duly inspected the aircraft or caused it to be inspected or has given notice in writing to the designated officer that he does not propose to do so, or, if the inspection has not been begun within three hours after the designated officer gave the direction for its detention, on the expiration of that period.

(2) Nothing in this Article shall affect the exercise of any powers of the chief medical officer in regard to the detention of aircraft or authorise an infected aircraft or an aircraft coming from an infected locality to depart before the prescribed measures are completed.

10 Duty of person in charge of airport

10. Where the person in charge of an airport receives information before the arrival of an aircraft thereat that a person on the aircraft has symptoms of infectious disease or that there are circumstances in relation to the aircraft requiring the attention of the chief medical officer, he shall forthwith notify the chief medical officer and the appropriate designated officer to that effect.

11 Detention of aircraft

11.—(1) The chief medical officer may direct that an arriving aircraft shall be detained for medical examination and may deliver a notice in writing to that effect to a designated officer.

(2) The chief medical officer shall inform the person in charge of the airport of any directions given by him under this Article.

12 Inspection of aircraft.

12. The chief medical officer

(1) may, and if required by the Minister, shall inspect or cause to be inspected as soon as practicable after its arrival any infected aircraft, any aircraft on which rodent plague has occurred or been suspected during the voyage, or any aircraft coming from an infected locality ;

(2) shall as soon as possible, and in any case within three hours after a designated officer has directed the detention of an aircraft under Article 8 of these Regulations inspect the aircraft, or cause it to be inspected, or give notice in writing to the designated officer that he does not propose to do so and if the aircraft is liable to be subjected to further measures under these Regulations, give notice in writing to the commander directing that the aircraft shall be detained for a further period.

13 Inspection of persons, etc.

13.—(1) The chief medical officer may, and if required by the Minister, shall—

(a) examine any person on an arriving aircraft where there are reasonable grounds for believing or suspecting that infectious disease is present on the aircraft or that persons on board the aircraft have been exposed to infection from infectious disease during the voyage of the aircraft or during a period of three weeks immediately preceding the arrival of the aircraft ;

(b) detain for the purpose of examination any person whom he is empowered or required under these Regulations to examine ;

(c) isolate any such person, or prohibit him from leaving the airport save upon such specified conditions as appear to the chief medical officer to be reasonably necessary to prevent the spread of infection ;

(d) require the commander to take or assist in taking such steps as, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, are reasonably necessary for preventing the spread of infectionby any such person, for the destruction of insects, rats or mice, and for the removal of conditions on the aircraft likely to convey infection, including conditions the existence of which might facilitate the harbouring of insects, rats or mice.

(2) A person shall not be isolated under paragraph (c) of sub-article (1) of this Article if he has been exposed to infection from yellow fever only, or has come from a locality included by reason of yellow fever in the list kept at that airport in pursuance of Article 26 of these Regulations, if

(a) he produces a certificate in conformity with the Convention that he has been inoculated against yellow fever ; and

(b) not more than four years and (except in the case of a reinoculation performed within four years from the date of a previous inoculation against yellow fever) not less than ten days have elapsed since the inoculation.

(3) The chief medical officer may examine any person on an arriving aircraft who is reasonably believed to be verminous and if the airport is a sanitary airport may cause such person and his clothing and any other articles in his possession to be forthwith cleansed and disinfested.

14 Measures in relation to tuberculosis.

14. Where a chief medical officer suspects that a person on an arriving aircraft is suffering from infective tuberculosis, he may

(a) send information to that effect to the chief medical officer of the health authority of the district to which the person is immediately proceeding ;

(b) require the commander to take or assist in taking such precautions as in the opinion of the chief medical officer are reasonably necessary to prevent the spread of infection on the aircraft.

15 Direction of aircraft to sanitary airport.

15.—(1) If the chief medical officer considers that there should be applied to an arriving aircraft which alights elsewhere than at a sanitary airport, or to its passengers and crew, any measures which can be applied only at a sanitary airport, he may direct that the aircraft together with the passengers and crew shall proceed to a sanitary airport.

(2) A chief medical officer shall give the commander notice in writing of any such direction and of the reasons for the direction and shall also inform forthwith the person in charge of the sanitary airport of the direction given.

16 Restriction on application of preventive measures.

16.—(1) In deciding what preventive measures should be applied to an arriving aircraft or to the passengers and crew, the chief medical officer shall take into account any preventive measures which have been applied at another airport, whether in the State or elsewhere, as noted in the journey log-book of the aircraft or in the declaration delivered in pursuance of paragraph (a) of sub-article (1) of Article 6 of these Regulations, and he shall not require the application of any preventive measures if since their previous application no incident has occurred calling for their renewed application and the aircraft has not visited, except for the purpose of refuelling, a locality included in the list kept by such chief medical officer in pursuance of Article 26 of these Regulations.

(2) In applying preventive measures to an aircraft or the passengers or crew, the chief medical officer shall detain the aircraft for as short a time as possible.

17 Measures to be taken by chief medical officer on release of aircraft from detention.

17.—(1) The chief medical officer shall forthwith inform the appropriate designated officer in writing of any measures taken by him or at his direction with reference to an arriving aircraft, its stores, equipment or cargo, passengers or crew, in pursuance of these Regulations, unless he has already given him notice in writing of the measures proposed to be taken.

(2) The chief medical officer when he releases an aircraft from detention shall give notice in writing to the appropriate designated officer, to the commander of the aircraft, and to the person in charge of the airport that, so far as control under these Regulations is concerned, the aircraft is free to proceed at or after a date and time stated in the notice.

18 Requirements concerning passengers.

18. Every passenger on an arriving aircraft who (whether at the termination of his journey or not) leaves the aircraft at an airport in the State shall complete a declaration in the form set forth in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations or in a form substantially to the like effect and deliver it to the chief medical officer or other health officer at the airport or, if an aircraft declaration of health is delivered in respect of the aircraft at an airport before it reaches the point at which he intends to leave the aircraft, at that airport.

19 Compliance with directions, etc.

19.—(1) Every person on an arriving aircraft shall comply with all directions, requirements or conditions given, made or imposed by the chief medical officer or other health officer of the responsible health authority or by a designated officer or member of the Gárda Síochána in pursuance of these Regulations, and shall furnish all such information as he may reasonably require (including information as to his name, address and destination) and every person who has for the time being the custody or charge of a child or other person who is under disability shall comply with any directions, requirements or conditions so given, made or imposed, and shall furnish all such information as aforesaid in respect of such child or other person.

(2) Every person who is placed under surveillance in pursuance of these Regulations shall

(a) give facilities for any medical examination required by the chief medical officer of any district in which he is located during the period of surveillance ;

(b) furnish all such information as any such chief medical officer may reasonably require with a view to ascertaining the person's state of health ;

(c) forthwith upon arrival during the period of surveillance at any address other than that stated as his intended destination in the declaration delivered in pursuance of Article 18 of these Regulations, send particulars of that address to the chief medical officer of the airport at which he disembarked ;

(d) if so instructed by the chief medical officer at the airport report to the chief medical officer of the health authority for the district in which he is for the time being during the period of surveillance and thereafter during that period report to that officer (or to such health officer as he may direct) at such intervals as he may require.

20 Infected aircraft or aircraft coming from an infected locality.

20. The chief medical officer as soon as practicable after the arrival of an infected aircraft or an aircraft coming from an infected locality, shall, if any person disembarks or any cargo is discharged therefrom, carry out or cause to be carried out the prescribed measures in relation thereto, and the aircraft shall remain subject to control under these Regulations until it has been examined by the chief medical officer or other health officer and those measures (other than measures in relation to any person who has disembarked from the aircraft) have been completed.

21 Aircraft alighting elsewhere than at an authorised airport.

21. Where an aircraft coming from a foreign place alights elsewhere than at an authorised airport, the provisions of these Regulations shall, with any necessary modifications, apply thereto as if it had alighted at an authorised airport and for this purpose

(a) the officer of customs and excise or member of the Gárda Síochána notified of the alighting under the provisions of paragraph 22 of the Schedule in the Table to the Air Navigation (General Regulations), Order 1947 (S.R. and O. No. 113 of 1947) shall be deemed to be a designated officer and

(b) the list of infected localities kept under Article 26 of these Regulations shall be any list so kept by the chief medical officer for the district or, if there is no such list, any list so kept by any other chief medical officer.

PART III. AIRCRAFT DEPARTING.

22 Examination and detention of person proposing to depart.

22.—(1) Where an aircraft is due or about to depart for a foreign place, the chief medical officer

(a) may examine at an airport any person who proposes to embark thereon whom he suspects to be suffering from an infectious disease, and if, after examination the chief medical officer is of opinion that the person shows symptoms of an infectious disease, shall, in the case of a person suffering or suspected to be suffering from yellow fever, and may in any other case prohibit his embarkation ;

(b) shall notify the commander of any person who embarks on or who proposes to continue his voyage thereon and who, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, should be placed under surveillance, and shall certify an entry to that effect to be made by the commander in the journey logbook.

(2) In the case of smallpox, a person shall not be prohibited from embarkation if he satisfies the chief medical officer that he is sufficiently protected by recent vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox.

23 Infected areas.

23. Where the Minister has, by order, a notice of which is published in the Iris Oifigiúil declared an area in the State (in this Article called an infected area) to be infected with plague, cholera or yellow fever, or with any other disease which in his opinion constitutes a menace to other countries by reason of its spread or potential spread, or that typhus or smallpox exists therein in an epidemic form, the chief medical officer at an airport shall, in relation to persons coming from that area, comply with any requirement which may be made by the Minister and in particular the following provisions shall, until any such order is revoked, apply in relation to an aircraft departing for a foreign place :

(a) the chief medical officer may prohibit the embarkation of a person coming from an infected area or permit his embarkation subject to specified conditions ;

(b) the chief medical officer may, and within three hours after receiving a request from the commander so to do shall, medically examine any person coming from an infected area who proposes to embark on or is on board an aircraft ;

(c) the chief medical officer, or other health officer of the responsible health authority shall inspect any clothing, bedding or other article which is intended to be worn by or taken by any person coming from an infected areaon the aircraft and which, in the opinion of such chief medical officer or other health officer may have been exposed to infection, and he may require the disinfection or destruction of any such clothing, bedding or article of personal use ;

(d) no person coming from an infected area shall take or cause to be taken on board an aircraft any article which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, or other health officer is capable of carrying infection, unless that officer is satisfied that it has been effectually disinfected ;

(e) if the area in which the airport is situate is declared to be infected with plague, and there is reason to believe that there are rats on the aircraft, the chief medical officer may, and if so required by the Minister, shall take steps to secure the deratisation of the aircraft ;

(f) if typhus is declared to exist in an epidemic form in an area, the chief medical officer may require the disinfection and disinfestation of—

(i) any person coming from that area who proposes to embark on or is on board an aircraft and who in his opinion is likely to convey infection, and

(ii) any article on or proposed to be carried on the aircraft likely to convey infection.

PART IV. MISCELLANEOUS.

24 Charges for services, etc.

24.—(1) Where a commander is required by or in pursuance of these Regulations to carry out any measures for reducing the danger or preventing the spread of infection, the responsible health authority may themselves at the request of the commander, and, if they think fit, at his cost, cause any such requirement to be complied with instead of enforcing the requirement against the commander.

(2) The amount of the charge for any work so to be undertaken by the responsible health authority shall be such reasonable sum as represents the actual or estimated cost to be incurred in undertaking the work, excluding any charge or claim in respect of profit, so, however, that it shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds unless notice of the proposed charge has been given to the commander before the work is undertaken.

(3) When under this Article the responsible health authority cause any requirement to be complied with at the cost of the commander they may, if they think fit, require the amount of the charge for the work or a part thereof to be paid to or deposited with them before the work is undertaken.

(4) Where in pursuance of these Regulations any preventive measures have been taken in regard to an aircraft the responsible health authority or the chief medical officer shall, on request by the commander furnish him free of charge with particulars in writing of those measures and the reasons why they were taken.

(5) Where in pursuance of these Regulations any preventive measures have been taken with regard to any person or to any articles in his possession the chief medical officer shall on request by such person furnish him free of charge with particulars in writing of those measures including the date on which they were taken.

25 Recovery of charges.

25. Every charge authorised by Article 24 of these Regulations may be recovered as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

26 List of Infected Localities.

26.—(1) The chief medical officer of a health authority in whose functional area an authorised airport is situate shall from time to time prepare and keep up to date a list of foreign localities—

(a) which are infected or believed to be infected with plague (human or rodent), or cholera ;

(b) in which typhus or smallpox is believed to be epidemic ;

and shall supply copies of every such list and any amendment thereof to the principal designated officer at the airport and to the person in charge of the airport.

(2) In the preparation and amendment of the said list, the chief medical officer shall take into account all information sent to him from time to time by the Minister and all other information which shall come to his knowledge.

27 Saving for mails.

27. Nothing in these Regulations shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any article forming part of any mail (other than a parcel mail) conveyed under the authority of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, or of any other postal administration or shall prejudicially affect the receipt on board and delivery in due course at the place of destination of any such mail (other than a parcel mail) in accordance with the Post Office Acts.

28 Saving for Air Navigation (General) Regulations.

28. Nothing in these Regulations shall affect the operation of any Regulations made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under the Air Navigation and Transport Acts, 1936 to 1946 and any Acts amending those Acts or any directions given thereunder.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis	Paratyphoid A.
Anthrax.	Paratyphoid B.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.	Plague
Cholera.	Psittacosis.
Diphtheria.	Scarlet Fever.
Dysentery.	Smallpox.
Malaria.	Typhoid.
Measles.	Typhus.
	Yellow Fever.

Article 20.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

PRESCRIBED MEASURES IN RESPECT OF AN INFECTED AIRCRAFT OR AN AIRCRAFT COMING FROM AN INFECTED LOCALITY.

PART I.—PLAGUE.

A.—INFECTED AIRCRAFT.

1. The aircraft shall be inspected and the passengers and crew shall be medically examined.

2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.

3. All other persons shall be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated, for a period expiring not later than six days after the date of arrival of the aircraft at the airport.

4. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, are infected, shall be cleansed of vermin, and, if necessary, disinfected, and merchandise proposed to be discharged may, if it is considered liable to harbour rats or fleas, be subjected to such measures as the chief medical officer thinks fit.

5. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by persons suffering from plague, or which the chief medical officer considers to be infected, shall be cleansed of vermin, and, if necessary, disinfected.

6. The chief medical officer may in exceptional cases require the aircraft to be deratised if there is reason to suspect the presence of rats on board and if the operation was not carried out at the airport of departure.

B.—AIRCRAFT COMING FROM AN INFECTED LOCALITY.

1. The passengers and crew may be medically examined.

2. Any such persons may be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than six days after the date on which the aircraft left the infected locality.

3. The chief medical officer may, in exceptional circumstances, require the aircraft to be cleansed of vermin and to be deratised if these operations were not carried out at the airport of departure.

4. Merchandise proposed to be discharged from the aircraft may, if the chief medical officer considers it liable to harbour rats or fleas, be subjected to such measures as he thinks fit.

PART II.—CHOLERA.

A.—INFECTED AIRCRAFT.

1. The aircraft shall be inspected and the passengers and crew shall be medically examined.

2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.

3. All other persons shall be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than five days after the date of arrival of the aircraft at the airport : Provided that any person who satisfies the chief medical officer that he has been vaccinated for cholera within the preceding six months, excluding the last six days thereof, shall not be isolated.

4. The chief medical officer may prohibit the discharging from the aircraft of the following fresh foods, namely, fish, shellfish, fruit and vegetables.

5. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, are infected shall be disinfected.

6. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by persons infected with cholera, or which the chief medical officer considers to be infected, shall be disinfected.

7. If the chief medical officer suspects that the drinking water stored on board is infected, it shall be disinfected and, if practicable, emptied out and replaced, after disinfection of the container, by a supply of wholesome drinking water.

B.—AIRCRAFT COMING FROM AN INFECTED LOCALITY.

1. The passengers and crew may be medically examined.

2. Any such persons may be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than five days after the date on which the aircraft left the infected locality : Provided that any person who satisfies the chief medical officer that he has been vaccinated for cholera within the preceding six months, excluding the last six days thereof, shall not be isolated.

3. The discharge from the aircraft of the following fresh foods, namely, fish shellfish, fruit and vegetables may be prohibited.

PART III.—TYPHUS.

A.—Infected Aircraft.

1. The passengers and crew shall be medically examined.

2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked, isolated and disinfested.

3. Any other person reasonably suspected to have been exposed to infection may be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than twelve days after the date on which he was disinfested.

4. All persons on board shall be offered inoculation.

5. Any person reasonably suspected to be harbouring lice shall be disinfested.

6. Bedding which has been used, linen, wearing apparel and any other article which the chief medical officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected and disinfested.

7. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by persons suffering from typhus or which the chief medical officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected and disinfested.

B.—AIRCRAFT COMING FROM AN INFECTED LOCALITY.

The passengers and crew may be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than twelve days after the date on which they left the infected locality.

PART IV.—SMALLPOX.

A.—INFECTED AIRCRAFT.

1. The passengers and crew shall be medically examined.

2. The sick shall immediately be disembarked and isolated.

3. Any other person reasonably suspected by the chief medical officer to have been exposed to infection on board shall, unless in the opinion of the chief medical officer the person is sufficiently protected by recent vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox,

(a) be offered vaccination and placed under surveillance for a period not exceeding fourteen days after the date of arrival of the aircraft,

(b) be placed under surveillance for the said period without vaccination,

(c) be offered vaccination and isolated until the result of the vaccination is known and thereafter kept under surveillance until the fourteenth day after the date of arrival of the aircraft,

or,

(d) be isolated for a period of fourteen days after the date of arrival of the aircraft :

Provided that the chief medical officer shall not impose a requirement set out in sub-paragraph (c) or sub-paragraph (d) of this paragraph, unless, in his opinion, there is an exceptionally serious risk of introduction of smallpox into the country.

4. Bedding which has been used, soiled linen, wearing apparel and any other article which the chief medical officer considers to have been recently infected shall be disinfected.

5. The parts of the aircraft which have been occupied by persons suffering from smallpox or which the chief medical officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected.

B.—AIRCRAFT COMING FROM AN INFECTED LOCALITY.

The passengers and crew may be placed under surveillance or, in exceptional circumstances, isolated for a period expiring not later than fourteen days after the date on which they left the infected locality.

Article 6.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

AIRCRAFT DECLARATION OF HEALTH

(To be completed by the Commander of an aircraft arriving from a foreign place and delivered to the chief medical officer at the airport).

Airport of arrival........................................................

(1) Aircraft National and Registration marks..............................................

(2) Airport at which voyage began and date of departure therefrom............................................................ .....

(3) Airports at which the aircraft alighted during the voyage and date of departure from each

Airport

Date

Airport

Date

(4) Number of crew............................................................ ............................................................ ...............................

(5) Number of passengers............................................................ ............................................................ ...................

(6) Number of passengers disembarking at airport of arrival............................................................ .....................

(7) Has any person left the aircraft during the voyage on account of illness ? If so, give particulars............................................................ ............................................................ ..................................................

(8) Has there been any case of illness (other than air sickness) during the voyage ? If so, give particulars............................................................ ............................................................ ..................................................

(9) Has the aircraft been disinfected ?............................................................ ...........................................................

Give particulars of last three disinfectings

By whom

Place

Method

Date

(10) Have any other sanitary measures been carried out on the aircraft during the voyage ?.........................

(11) Have you on board any living animals, birds, insects, bacterial cultures or viruses ?..............................

I declare that the foregoing statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date......................................................... Signature of Commander............................................................ ...............

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

PERSONAL DECLARATION OF ORIGIN AND HEALTH.

(For passengers on aircraft)

Airport of arrival.........................

(1) Name in full............................................................ ............................................................ ..........................................

(BLOCK LETTERS, SURNAME FIRST).

(2) Nationality ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........................................

(3) Passport number............................................................ ............................................................ .................................

(4) Permanent (home) address............................................................ ............................................................ ................

(5) Address (in full) to which immediately proceeding............................................................ ..................................

(6) State below the town or locality or airport where you spent the fourteen nights prior to arrival in this country:

Last night............................................................ ......	8 nights ago............................................................ .
2 nights ago............................................................ .	9 nights ago............................................................ .
3 nights ago............................................................ .	10 nights ago............................................................ .
4 nights ago............................................................ ..	11 nights ago............................................................ .
5 nights ago............................................................ .	12 nights ago............................................................ .
6 nights ago............................................................ .	13 nights ago............................................................ .
7 nights ago............................................................ .	14 nights ago............................................................ .

(7) I am in possession of a certificate of inoculation or vaccination against (Write in each case Yes or No.)

Cholera...........................................

Smallpox ........................................

Typhus...........................................

Yellow Fever .................................

(8) I declare that I have had no illness during the past 14 days except as follows :—

I declare that the information given above is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date......................................................

Signature......................................

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twenty-second day of April, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.

I consent to the enforcement and execution of the appropriate provisions of these Regulations by officers of customs and excise.

P. McGILLIGAN,

Minister for Finance.

I consent to the enforcement and execution of the appropriate provisions of these Regulations by immigration officers and members of the Garda Siochana.

SEAN MacEOIN,

Minister for Justice.

I consent to the enforcement and execution of the appropriate provisions of these Regulations by officers of the Minister for Industry and Commerce at a Customs-free airport.

DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.