# The Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations 1979, Chapter A: Infected aircraft


(1) The medical officer may—
(a) require any suspect on board to be disinsected and place him under surveillance, the period of surveillance being reckoned from the date of arrival of the aircraft;
(b) require the disinsecting and, if necessary, disinfection of the baggage of any infected person or suspect, and of any other article on board and any part of the aircraft which the medical officer considers to be contaminated.
(2) On arrival of an aircraft having on board a person suffering from pulmonary plague the medical officer may—
(a) carry out the measures set out in paragraph 1 of Part I of this Schedule;
(b) require any person on board to be placed in isolation for six days reckoned from the date of the last exposure to infection.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1434/schedule/2/part/I/chapter/A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-aircraft-regulations-1979/schedule-2/part-I/chapter-A
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