Section 65
of Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act
Section 65
(2)
If a ship has called during the current voyage at a port declared by notification in the Gazette to be infected in respect of plague, such ship shall, if so directed by a port health officer, anchor at a quarantine anchorage during its stay in port
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or until it has been deratted to the satisfaction of the port health officer.
(3)
The master, owner or agent of every ship shall, if so required by the port health officer, remove any partition which is not required for the safety of the ship or for the accommodation of the crew, passengers or cargo but is likely to harbour rats or to prevent the destruction of rats by fumigation.
Unauthorised boarding or disembarking from infected ship or ship coming from infected or suspected local area, while limits, is outside port limits, prohibited.