{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-ships-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Powers in respect of certain persons on ships",
  "text": "(1) Where there is, or the medical officer suspects that there is, on board a ship on arrival or being already in the Board area a person suffering from an infectious disease, the medical officer may—\n(a) cause such person to be removed from the ship and isolated or sent to hospital or to some other suitable place approved for that purpose by the Board,\n(b) in the case of cholera, smallpox or viral haemorrhagic fever, place such person under surveillance for the appropriate period specified in regulation 34(1); or\n(c) except as provided in regulation 34, the medical officer may, by notice in writing to the master, prohibit the removal of the person or his disembarking from the ship without the consent in writing of the medical officer;\n(2) Where the Department is satisfied that a grave danger to public health exists by reason of infectious disease and notifies medical officers accordingly, the medical officer, if the Department so directs, shall require a person disembarking from a ship to state in writing his name and intended destination and address.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 8, 9 applied as inserted by 2013 SR246 reg. 11(7)(e) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/246), regs. 1(1), 11(7)(e))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}