{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/333",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health (Ships) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appointment and duties of medical officers and provisions of services by Boards",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, a Board may, and if so required by the Department shall—\n(a) appoint such medical practitioners, in addition to its medical officer as may be necessary for the proper enforcement and execution of these Regulations;\n(b) give directions from time to time as to the duties which are to be performed by any medical practitioner so appointed or any other officer authorised to enforce and execute these Regulations;\n(c) provide or arrange for the provision of —\n(i) premises or waiting rooms for the medical inspection and examination of persons;\n(ii) premises for the temporary isolation of persons under these Regulations;\n(iii) apparatus or other means for cleansing, disinfecting or disinsecting ships, persons or clothing and other articles;\n(d) arrange for the reception into hospital of persons requiring to be removed to a hospital under these Regulations;\n(e) arrange for the provision of means of transport for the conveyance of persons to any premises referred to in paragraph (c), or to a hospital;\n(f) do all things as in its opinion or the opinion of the Department, as the case may be, are necessary to enable the provisions of these Regulations to be complied with.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 21.8.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/333/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:14.870017+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."
}