Section 4: Regulations

4. Regulations (1) The Minister may make regulations for preventing— (a) danger to public health from ships or aircraft or persons or things on board arriving at any place; and (b) the spread of infection by means of any ship or aircraft about to leave any place, or by means of any person or thing about to leave any place in any ship or aircraft. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the regulations may make provision for— (a) the collection and transmission of epidemiological and sanitary information; (b) the signals to be displayed by ships or aircraft; (c) the questions to be answered and information, whether oral or documentary, to be supplied by masters, commanders and other persons who are or have been on board any ship or aircraft, or are desirous of boarding any ship or aircraft; (d) the detention of ships or aircraft and of persons and things that are or have been on board; (e) the destruction of things which are or have been on board ships or aircraft; (f) the duties to be performed by masters and commanders; (g) authorising the making of charges and providing for the recovery of charges and expenses; (h) the enforcement of the regulations; (i) the conferring of powers to board ships and aircraft and to enter premises; (j) defining the limits of quarantine stations; (k) the control and management of quarantine stations; and (l) the detention of any person, ship or aircraft. [Issue 1] Q1 – 2 Revised Laws of Mauritius