(1) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, Quarantine Authority may make rules for implementing or carrying into effect any regulations in force by virtue of section 4, and for supplementing any such regulations as regards any matters for which the Quarantine Authority may consider it expedient to provide with a view to carrying into effect the purposes set out in subsection (1).
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), rules under that subsection may, for the purposes therein set out, make provision for all or any of the following matters, that is to says—
(a) regulating the granting or withdrawal of pratique;
(b) regulating the issuing of bills of health, certificates, and other documents;
(c) the governance of quarantine mooring stations, anchorages and berthing places, and of places where persons or things are detained or taken for examination and of places used for the observation or isolation of persons;
(d) the sanitation of ports and aerodromes and their surroundings, including measures for keeping them free from rodents, mosquitoes and other vectors of disease;
(e) fixing the charges sanctioned by regulations in force by virtue of section 4 and providing for their incidence.
(3) The power to make rules under this section shall be without prejudice to any power to make regulations under section 4. However, rules shall not have any force or effect if and to the extent that they are at any time inconsistent with any regulations in force by virtue of section 4.
(4) Rules made by the Quarantine Authority under this section shall not have any force or effect unless approved by the Governor General. In approving any rules, the Governor General may make any amendments which he or she may consider desirable.