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This Act provides for the establishment of the Quarantine Authority and lays down quarantine measures for the prevention of the spread of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in Fiji. The Minister may make regulations, in respect of the whole or any part of Fiji, including the ports and coastal waters thereof, for preventing danger to public health and the spread of infection by means of any ship or aircraft, or by means of any person or thing. More specifically, regulations may address certain provisions, including but not limited to: (i) the prohibition or control of the introduction into Fiji of any noxious insect or any pest or any disease germ or microbe or any disease agent or any culture virus or substance or article containing or likely to contain any noxious insect, pest, disease, germ, microbe or disease agent; (ii) the determination and enforcement of measures of disinfection, disinsectisation, fumigation and other measures of quarantine which vessels, aircraft, persons, buildings and goods shall carry out or be subjected to.
A consolidated version of the present Act, as last amended by the Legal Notice No. 112 of 1970, is attached.
Title:
Quarantine Act of 1964 (Cap. 112).
Country:
Fiji
Type of document:
Legislation
Date of original text:
Data source:
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Repealed:
No
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