Section 2
In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —
of Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act
“animals” includes horses, asses, mules, cattle, dogs, sheep, goats and swine and any kind of four-footed beast;
“building” means any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether intended for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage, or bridge;
“carcase” means the carcass of an animal, and includes part of a carcass and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other part of an animal separately or otherwise or any portion thereof;
“cattle” means bulls, cows, oxen, buffaloes, heifers and calves;
“contact” means a person who has been in the com-pany of an infected person, or who has been on a
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ship or in the room or house in which a case of infectious disease existed;
“crew” includes any person who is not on board for the sole purpose of travelling from one country to another but who is employed in some way in the ship’s service or in connection with the cargo;
“dairy” means any farm, farm-house, cowshed, milk-store, milk-shop or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for the pur-poses of sale;
“dangerous infectious disease” means and includes small-pox, cholera, para-cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus and any other disease which the
Minister by notification in the Gazette declares to be included within the said expression;
“day” means an interval of 24 hours;
“disease” means any disease of an infectious or con-tagious nature dangerous to mankind or animals;
“diseased” means affected with disease;
“disinfection” means the destruction or removal of the cause of an infectious disease and includes the taking of any reasonable and appropriate measures to render a germ carrier free from infection;
“district” means the district of any local authority under this Act;
“fodder” means grass or other substance commonly used for food for animals;
“foyer” means the condition which exists when the occurrence of new cases outside the immediate sur-roundings of the first cases proves that the spread of
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the disease has not been limited to the place where it began;
“health officer” means the officer for the time being performing the duties of health officer or assistant health officer to a Municipal Board or of health officer in charge of a quarantine station, and includes any person authorised in writing by such officer to act as his deputy or assistant;
“immigrant” means —
(a)
any person arriving in the waters of
Brunei Darussalam in a ship, with the intention of landing in Brunei Darussalam;
(b)
any person arriving at any local area in
Brunei Darussalam;
(c)
if the health officer or port health officer so directs, any person who arrives from an infected or suspected local area;
“infected” means affected with an infectious dis-ease;
“infected local area” means any local area which has been declared by public notification to be an infected local area from the date of such declaration until the date of the withdrawal of such public declaration or until the date it is declared to be a suspected local area;
“infectious disease” means anthrax, cerebrospinal fever, chickenpox, cholera, diphtheria, enteric fever, erysipelas, leprosy, plague, puerperal fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhus, yellow fever and any other disease that the Minister, by notifica-tion in the Gazette, declares to be included within the expression;
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“local area” means any territory or territorial division the limits of which are capable of accurate definition;
“local authority” means in the case of a town area the Municipal Board and in all other cases the
Minister or any person authorised by him in writing to act as his deputy;
“litter” means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals;
“master” means the master, officer or other person for the time being in charge of any ship;
“observation” means the isolation of a person at a quarantine station or at such other place as the health officer or port health officer may direct, before such person receives free pratique;
“parent” includes the father and mother of a legitimate child and the mother of an illegitimate child;
“pilgrim” means a Muslim passenger of any age or of either sex, journeying or about to journey from any port in Brunei Darussalam to any port in the Red
Sea, or in the Gulf of Aden or in the Arabian Sea, except ports in India, with a view to the pilgrimage to the Hedjaz, or returning from such journey;
“port” means any town built by the sea or having water access to the sea, and includes any district surrounding such town;
“port health officer” means any person so appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, either by name or office, and includes all his deputies or assistants;
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“pratique” means, in the case of a ship, the permis-sion or licence granted to that ship to hold inter-course with a port; and, in the case of a person, the permission or licence granted to that person confer-ring upon him freedom from observation;
“prescribed case” means —
(a)
a case of a dangerous infectious disease originating in a quarantine station or a close public institution;
(b)
an imported case which has been immediately isolated in a quarantine station; or
(c)
a case occurring in a new arrival during the period of his quarantine surveillance;
“quarantine” means the compulsory detention in iso-lation for the purpose and under the provisions of this Act or of the regulations made thereunder of any ship, person, animal or thing, so that there shall be no communication or traffic with any other ship, person, animal or thing, or with any building or place except in accordance with this Act or the regu-lations made thereunder;
“quarantine anchorage” includes any anchorage or moorings or landing place for a ship;
“quarantine station” means any island, building or place where quarantine is carried out, and includes an examination station, a hulk and an infectious dis-eases hospital;
“rat” means any rodent and includes any animal or insect known to be a means of spreading plague;
“ship” includes any vessel or craft which may be used in navigation by water;
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“surveillance” means that persons are not isolated, that they receive free pratique immediately, but the authorities at the several places whither they are bound are informed of their coming, and they are subjected to a medical examination with a view to ascertaining their state of health;
“suspected local area” means any local area which has been by notification published in the Gazette to be a suspected local area from the date of such dec-laration until the date of the withdrawal of such dec-laration;
“veterinary officer” means a Government veterinary surgeon, or an officer appointed by office or name to be a veterinary officer or deputy veterinary officer for the purpose of this Act.