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PART 1
INTRODUCTORY

1. Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine (Air) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Act” means the Quarantine Act;

“aëdes” means Aëdes ægypti and any potential mosquito vectors of yellow fever;

“ærodrome”, “aircraft” and “commander” have the meanings assigned to them in section 2 of the Act;

“aircraft coming from an infected area” in relation to an aircraft arriving at an ærodrome or other place means an aircraft—

(a) which left a plague, cholera, typhus or smallpox infected area within the period of incubation of those diseases;

(b) which left a yellow fever infected or endemic area, or a locality in close relation with any such area, within a period of 6 days immediately preceding its arrival, or after a longer period if there is reason to believe that the aircraft may be carrying adult mosquitoes emanating from the said area or locality;

“authorised ærodrome” means an ærodrome for the time being approved as a customs ærodrome for the purpose of the laws relating to customs;

“authorised officer” means a person authorised to act as such in the case in question by virtue of an order made under regulation 3;

“Convention” means the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation signed at the Hague on the 12th of April, 1933, as modified by the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1944, of which relevant extracts are set forth in the Appendix;

“crew” includes any person having duties on board an aircraft in connection with the flying or the safety of the flight of the aircraft, or employed on board in any way in the service of the aircraft, the passengers, or the cargo;

“day” means an interval of 24 hours;

“endemic area” means an area in which the health officer has reason to believe that yellow fever exists, in a form recognizable clinically, biologically or pathologically;

“foreign” means situate outside Saint Lucia;

“health officer” means the appropriate officer appointed as such under section 3 of the Act, and includes a medical practitioner acting under the direction of the Quarantine Authority or a health officer for the purpose of executing these Regulations or any of them;

“immune”, in relation to yellow fever, means that the person in question produces a certificate to the satisfaction of the health officer issued by a medical officer or institution recognised by the Quarantine Authority—

(a) to the effect that the bearer has been inoculated for the first time more than 10 days and less than four years previously;

(b) to the effect that he or she has been re-inoculated within the past 4 years; or

(c) to the effect that he or she has recovered from an attack of yellow fever and that his or her blood contains immune bodies against yellow fever as proved by a test carried out by an institution regularly carrying out biological tests for yellow fever;

“infected” in relation to an aircraft arriving at an ærodrome or other place, means that the aircraft has on board a case or suspected case of plague, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox, or a case presenting clinical signs of cholera, or which has had such a case or suspected case on board and has not since been subjected to the measures prescribed by these Regulations;

“infected area” means a local area in which the health officer has reason to believe that—

(a) a first case of plague recognized as non-imported has occurred or in which rodent plague exists or has existed during the previous 6 months;

(b) cholera has formed a foyer, that is to say that the occurrence of new cases beyond the immediate surroundings of the first case proves that the spread of the disease has not been limited to the place where it began;

(d) typhus or smallpox exists in epidemic form, that is to say that the occurrence of new cases indicates that the spread of the disease is not under control;

“infectious disease” means any epidemic or acute infectious disease, and includes open pulmonary tuberculosis but does not include venereal disease;

“isolation” means the removal to a hospital or other suitable place approved by the health officer, of a person suffering, or suspected to be suffering, from an infectious disease, and his or her detention therein until, in the opinion of the health officer—

(a) he or she is free from infection; or

(b) if not so free, he or she may be discharged without undue danger to public health;

“local area” means a well defined area such as a province, district, island, town or quarter of a town, port or village, whatever may be its extent or population, and includes an ærodrome which is, or may be designated as, a local area for the purposes of the Convention;

“observation” means the detention under medical supervision of persons in such places and for such periods as may be directed by a health officer;

“passenger” means any person, other than a member of the crew, carried in an aircraft;

“period of incubation” means—

For plague	6	days
For cholera	5	days
For yellow fever	6	days
For typhus	12	days
For smallpox	14	days;

“Quarantine Authority” means the Quarantine Authority established under the powers conferred by section 3 of the Act;

“sanitary ærodrome” means an ærodrome declared under regulation 4 to be a sanitary ærodrome;

“specified infectious disease” means plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus and smallpox;

“surveillance” means that persons are not detained, that they may move about freely, but that they are required to report for medical examination at such intervals and during such period and to such persons as may be directed by a health officer.

3. Officers

(1) The Quarantine Authority may by order authorise any officer or person or any member of a class of officers or persons to act as an authorised officer for the purposes of these Regulations or for some specified purpose of these Regulations.

(2) Every such officer or person shall exercise his or her powers and perform his or her duties subject to the general or special direction and control of the Quarantine Authority and the health officer.

4. Approval of sanitary ærodromes

The Governor General may, by order, declare any authorised ærodrome in Saint Lucia to be a sanitary ærodrome for the purposes of these Regulations, where he or she is satisfied that there are available at the ærodrome—

(a) a health officer and adequate sanitary staff (whether or not in permanent attendance);

(b) a place for medical inspection;

(c) equipment for taking and despatching suspected material to a laboratory for examination if such examination cannot be made at the ærodrome;

(d) facilities for the isolation, transport and care of the sick, for the observation of contacts separately from the sick and for carrying out any other prophylactic measure in suitable premises within the ærodrome or in proximity to it;

(e) apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection, dis-insectisation and deratisation if required, as well as any other measures laid down in these Regulations;