Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 s 31
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 s 31
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s 31
(1) The Minister may make regulations, in respect of the whole or any part of Malaysia, including airports, ports, coastal waters and land frontiers thereof, for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), regulations under this section may provide for all or any of the following matters:
(a) the establishment and maintenance of facilities on land or sea or at the common frontier of contiguous territories for health measures to be applied to local and international traffic;
(b) regulating the entry and movement of any vehicle and prescribing the measures to which the vehicle shall be subject, to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases;
(c) regulating—
(i) the entry of persons into, their movements within, and their departure from, Malaysia;
(ii) the importation and exportation of articles;
(iii) the importation and exportation of human remains, human tissues or part thereof;
(iv) the importation and exportation of pathogenic organisms and substances;
(d) regulating the sanitary standards required for ships and aircraft registered in Malaysia;
(e) regulating the sanitary standards required for ships and aircraft coming into Malaysia;
(f) the duties to be performed by commanders and other persons who are or have been on board any vehicle, or who are desirous of boarding the vehicle, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases;
(g) regulating the sanitary standards required for ports, airports and their surroundings and the health standards of persons employed thereat;
(h) regulating quarantine procedures and the management of quarantine stations;
(i) the detention, isolation and observation in a quarantine station of persons suffering from or suspected to be suffering from an infectious disease;
(j) regulating the cleansing and disinfection of premises—
(i) where there has been a case or suspected case of infectious disease; or
(ii) which are suspected of being contaminated with the agents of infectious disease;
(k) regulating the removal and disinfection or destruction of articles which have been or are suspected to have been contaminated with the agents of infectious disease;
(l) the prevention and control of the spread of infection by insects, rodents or other animals;
(m) prescribing sanitary standards and sanitary facilities for premises;
(n) the inspection of premises and articles therein;
(o) the collection and transmission of epidemiological and health information and the compulsory reporting of infectious diseases;
(p) prescribing the fees to be paid under this Act and the regulations made under this Act;
(q) the payment to the Government of any costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and maintenance of persons removed to hospitals or quarantine stations;
(r) prescribing offences which may be compounded and the procedure for compounding;
(s) prescribing the forms to be used under this Act and the regulations made under this Act;
(t) such other matters as may appear to the Minister advisable for the prevention or mitigation of infectious diseases. Amendment
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Menteri boleh membuat peraturan-peraturan, Kuasa bagi keseluruhan atau mana-mana bahagian Malaysia, meatuantermasuk lapangan terbang, pelabuhan, perairan peraturan. pantai dan sempadan daratnya, bagi melaksanakan peruntukan-peruntukan Akta ini.
(2) Tanpa menjejaskan keluasan kuasa-kuasa yang diberikan oleh subseksyen (1), peraturan-peraturan di
[Bah. VI, S. 31] bawah seksyen ini boleh mengadakan peruntukan bagi kesemua atau mana-mana perkara yang berikut:
(a) menubuhkan dan menyenggara kemudahankemudahan di darat atau di laut atau di sempadan bersama wilayah berdampingan supaya langkah-langkah kesihatan dikenakan kepada lalulintas tempatan dan antarabangsa;
(b) mengawalselia kemasukan dan pergerakan mana-mana kenderaan dan menetapkan langkah-langkah yang kepadanya kenderaan itu akan tertakluk, untuk mencegah bermulanya penyakit berjangkit;
(c) mengawalselia—
(i) kemasukan orang-orangke dalam Malaysıa, pengerakan mereka di dalam keberangkatan mereka dari Malaysıa;
(11) pengimportan dan pengeksportan barang-barang;
(iii) pengimportan dan pengeksportan mayat, tisu manusia atau mana-mana bahagiannya;
(iv) pengimportan dan pengeksportan organisma dan bahan patogenik;
(d) mengawalselia standard kebersihanyang dikehendaki bagi kapal-kapal dan pesawat udara yang didaftarkan di Malaysia;
(e) mengawalselia standard kebersihan yang dikehendaki bagi kapal-kapal dan pesawat udara yang masuk ke Malaysia;
(f) tugas-tugas yang hendaklah dilaksanakan oleh komander dan orang-orang lain yang berada atau telah berada diatas kenderaan, atau mereka yang berhasrat untuk menaiki kenderaan itu, untuk mencegah penyakit-penyakit berjangkit merebak;
[Bah. VI, S. 31]
(g) mengawalselia standard kebersihan yang dikehendaki bagi pelabuhan, terbang dan kawasan sekelilingnya dan standard kesihatan orang-orang yang diambil
(h) mengawalselia prosedur kuarantin pengurusan stesen kuarantin;
(i) penahanan, pengasingan dan pemerhatian di sesuatu stesen kuarantin akan orang-orang yang mengidap atau disyaki mengidap sesuatu penyakit berjangkit;
(j) mengawalselia pencucian dan pembasmian kuman premis-
(i) di mana telah terdapat suatu kes atau disyaki terdapat suatu kes penyakit berjangkit; atau
(ii) yang disyaki tercemar dengan agen-agen penyakit berjangkit;
(k) mengawalselia pemindahan dan pembasmian kuman atau pemusnahan barang-barang yang telah atau disyaki tercemar dengan agen-agen penyakit berjangkit;
(1) mencegah dan mengawal merebaknya jangkitan melalui serangga, Irodensia atau binatang-binatang lain;
(m) menetapkan standard kebersihan kemudahan-kemudahan kebersihan bagi premis;
(n) memeriksa premis-premis dan barang-barang di dalamnya;
(o) mengumpul dan menyampaikan maklumat epidemiologi dan kesihatan dan laporan wajib mengenai penyakit berjangkit;
[Bah. VI, S. 31-33] Pindaan. N.M.B. Bab 180. Pemansuhan kecualian.
(p) menetapkan fee-fee yang akan dibayar di bawah Akta ini dan peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah Akta ini;
(9) pembayaran kepada Kerajaan apa-apa kos dan perbelanjaan yang dikenakan dıtanggung bagı layanan perubatan dan penyaraan orang-orang yang dipindahkan ke hospital-hospital atau stesen-stesen kuarantin; dıkompaun prosedur kompaunan;
(s) menetapkan borang-borang akan digunakan di bawah Akta ini dan peraturanperaturan yang dibuat di bawah Akta ini;
(t) apa-apa perkara lain yang pada pendapat Menteri adalah wajar bagi pencegahan atau pengurangan penyakit-penyakit berjangkit.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
