Section 76
of Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act
Section 76
(2)
When a local area, whether within or without
Brunei Darussalam, has been declared under section 58 by notification in the Gazette to be infected, the port health officer may take or order to be taken the following measures in respect of merchandise or baggage which it is desired to import from
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such local area without Brunei Darussalam or to export from such local area within Brunei Darussalam —
(a)
When the infectious disease is plague —
(i)
body linen or wearing apparel recently worn or bedding which has been in recent use may be subjected to disinsectisation, and, if such officer considers it necessary, to disinfection;
(ii)
merchandise likely to harbour plague-infected rats may be prohibited from being unloaded unless the precautions necessary to prevent the escape of rats and to ensure their destruction are taken as far as practicable.
(b)
When the infectious disease is cholera —
(i)
body linen or wearing apparel recently worn, or bedding which has been in recent use may be subjected to disinfection;
(ii)
fresh fish, shell-fish, vegetables, fruit or water may be prohibited from being imported, unless they have undergone a treatment calculated to destroy cholera vibrios.
(c)
When the infectious disease is typhus —
(i)
body linen or wearing apparel recently worn, bedding which has been in recent use, or rags not carried as merchandise in bulk, may be subjected to disinsectisation.
(d)
When the infectious disease is small-pox —
(i)
body linen or wearing apparel recently worn, bedding which has been in recent
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use, or rags not carried as merchandise in bulk, may be subjected to disinfection.
(3)
When the port health officer or health officer has ordered to be taken any of the measures set out in subsection (2), every person who in any way contravenes any order with respect to such merchandise or baggage, and the master or chinchew of any ship, the guard of any railway-train, or the driver of any vehicle, in which such merchandise is imported or exported, and the person importing or exporting such merchandise or baggage, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine not exceeding $200, and such merchandise or baggage may be confiscated, disinfected, disinsectised, derrated, treated or destroyed, at the discretion of the port health officer without compensation.
(4)
Whenever the port health officer or health officer is empowered by this Act or any regulation made thereunder to disinfect any article, such officer may destroy by fire any clothes or other articles small value, including rags not carried as merchandise in bulk.
(5)
The value of all articles so destroyed shall be assessed by such officer and paid as compensation to the owner of such articles by the local authority.
Corpses.