Quarantine Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1932. No. 75.

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1924, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-third day of July 1932.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR

Minister for Health.

 

Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1927.

The Quarantine Regulations 1927 (Statutory Rules 1927, No. 8, 1927) are amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 5 and substituting therefore the following sub-regulation:—

“5.— (1.) The Primary Health Report relating to any vessel at its first port of entry into the Commonwealth shall be in accordance with the following form:—

Commonwealth of Australia.

The Quarantine Act 1908-1924.

HEALTH REPORT AND ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AS TO THE PRESENT AND RECENT STATE OF THE HEALTH OF ALL PERSONS ON BOARD, AND AS TO THE HISTORY AND SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE UNDERMENTIONED VESSEL DURING THE CURRENT VOYAGE.

By............................................................................ *Master of the said Vessel,

and by................................................................. Medical Officer of the said Vessel.

* Master in relation to a vessel means the person (other than a pilot) in charge or command of the Vessel.

Name, Description, Tonnage, and Nationality of Vessel.	Port from which Vessel started, and Date of Sailing therefrom.	Ports at which Vessel has Called, and Dates of Arrival and Departure.			Number of Persons now on Board.
		Port.	Date.		Passengers.		Crew.
			Arrival.	Departure.	Class.	Number.	Rating.	Number.
Name.	Terminal Port of Voyage.	First.......................	Officers, including master, medical officer, and pursers
Description.		Second...................	Engineers ...............
		Third......................	Deck hands, including carpenters, boatswain, &c,.......................
Tonnage.	Duration of Voyage in Days.	Steerage.................	Donkey-men, greasers, fire men, trimmers.............................
Nationality.		Other persons not on articles not on passenger list .....	Stewards, cooks, bakers, butchers, and all others on the articles
		Total......................	Total....................

1840.—Price 3d.

Question No. 1.—Did any small-pox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, or typhus fever exist at the port of departure or at any port at which the vessel touched during the voyage?

Answer—

Question No. 2.—Was there, during the voyage (at any port or while at sea), any communication, other than oral or by signal, between the vessel and any other vessel on which there was any   quarantinable disease?

  Small-pox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, and leprosy, or any disease declared by Proclamation to be such, are quarantinable diseases.

If so, state particulars.

Answer—

Question No. 3.—Have you, during the voyage, taken on board at any place any person who, or any goods which, at the time of his or their reception on board, would be deemed liable to quarantine under section 18 of the Quarantine Act?

Answer—

Question No. 4.—Has any detailed inquiry, or medical inspection or examination of all or any of the persons on board been made within the last twenty-four hours with a view to the detection of any quarantinable disease ?

If so, give particulars.

Answer—

Question No. 5.—Is there now, or has there been on board during this voyage, any person afflicted with—

(а) any fever attended with or followed by eruption;

(b) any skin eruption;

(c) any illness attended with glandular swelling;

(d) choleric diarrhea or diarrhea with collapse;

(e) any disease which you believe or suspect to be or to have been a quarantinable disease, or which resembles or has resembled a quarantinable disease.

Answer—(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)

(State particulars of every case in Schedule A on back hereof.)

Question No. 6.—Is there or has there been during the voyage any person suffering from tuberculosis in any form, demonstrable syphilis in an active condition, or any other communicable disease, or any infirm, invalid, epileptic, or mentally defective person on board the vessel ?

If so, state particulars in Schedule B on back hereof.

Answer—

Question No. 7.—Has any person affected with any sickness or disease left the vessel during the present voyage?

If so, state particulars.

Answer—

Question No. 8.—Has any person died on board during the voyage?

If so, state particulars in Schedule A on back hereof.

Answer—

Question No. 9.—Does the cargo include any secondhand clothing or bedding, or any rags, or any flock made of rags or other textile material, whether in compressed or uncompressed bales, or any used sacks or carpets or canvas ?

If so, state particulars, including information as to the port or ports cargo was shipped.

Answer—

Question No. 10.—From inquiries made—

(а) Is any person on board in possession of any culture, virus, or substance containing any disease germ or microbe or disease agent;

(b) If so, has the permission of the Minister to import the article been obtained?

Answer—(a) (b) 

Question No. 11.— (a) Is there now or has there been during the voyage any unusual number of rats or mice on board?

(b) Have any dead or apparently sick rats or mice been found on board during the voyage?

If so, state particulars.

Answer—(a)  (b)

Question No. 12.—At what ports was drinking water or water ballast taken on board?

Answer—

 

The answers to questions and the particulars given in the Report and in the Schedules hereunder are true and correct.

 Master.

 Medical Officer.

Witness.....................................................

Quarantine Officer or other authorized person.

Note.—The Master and Medical Officer must sign in the presence of the witness.

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

 

SCHEDULE A.

Particulars as to every Case of Disease described in Question No. 5, or Death during the Voyage.

Name and Class or Rating.	Sex.	Age.	Port of.		Duration of Illness.		Nature of Illness.	Remarks.
			Embarkation.	Debarkation.	Beginning.	Termination.

Schedule B.

Particulars as to any Person on Board suffering from any Disease or Condition named or described in Question No. 6.

Name and Class or Rating.	Sex.	Age.	Port of.		Nature of Illness, Infirmity or Defect.	Remarks.
			Embarkation.	Destination.

Note.—If necessary, amplify Schedules A and B on a separate sheet of paper.

Comments of Quarantine Officer at the Port of.......................................

 

Notice to Masters.—In order to expedite the clearance of the vessel, this form should be filled up by the Medical Officer (if carried) or by the Master immediately on arrival in Australian waters, and all documents relating to the sanitary history of the vessel should be ready for production to the Quarantine Officer. The Master is further requested to take the necessary steps to have all persons on board ready for inspection, together with passenger and crew lists, log-book, sick lists, &c.

The passenger and crew lists should be in duplicate, typewritten (if practicable), and grouped according to class or rating.

Under the Quarantine Act 1908-1924 the Master and the Medical Officer are liable to a penalty of £100 for refusal or omission to give a true account and a true reply to any question; and for wilfully making a false statement in answer or for wilfully misleading a Quarantine Officer they are liable to two years’ imprisonment.

 

Conditional

Full

pratique given on...................... 19 at........  for .......................

 Initials of Quarantine Officer.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.