{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-aircraft-regulations-1979/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-aircraft-regulations-1979/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-aircraft-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where on the arrival of an aircraft at a customs airport it appears to the customs officer that during the voyage of the aircraft—\n(a) there has been on the aircraft a death caused otherwise than by accident, or a case of illness which is or is suspected to be of an infectious nature; or\n(b) the aircraft has been in an infected area; or\n(c) death not attributable to poison or other measures for destruction has occurred amongst rodents on the aircraft,\nhe shall, unless the authorised officer otherwise directs, give such directions as seem necessary to him to secure the detention of the aircraft, the persons carried thereon, and its stores, equipment and cargo.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1447",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Health (Aircraft) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/1900",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Health (Aircraft) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1434/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:10:42.831767+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}