# The Public Health (Ships) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008, Regulation 19: Detention of ships, and ships to be taken to mooring stations

Extent: N.I.

(1) On the arrival of an infected ship or a suspected ship, or any other ship on which there has been, during its current voyage and within the last four weeks before arrival, a case of plague, cholera, yellow fever or smallpox in respect of which the ship has not, outside the United Kingdom, been subjected to appropriate measures equivalent to those provided for in these Regulations, the master shall take it to a mooring station unless an authorised officer otherwise allows or directs.
(2) When the authorised officer has reason to believe that a ship on arrival may be one to which paragraph (1) applies, he may direct the master to take it to a mooring station.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/333/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-19
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