Authority to promulgate and enforce rides and regulations and provide penalties for their violations.
Section 5
SEC. 5. Authority to promulgate and enforce rides and regulations and provide penalties for their violations.—The Director of Quarantine, with the approval of the Secretary of Health and Public Welfare is authorized to promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of quarantinable diseases from foreign countries into the Philippines or from one port to another in the Philippines. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing these regulations, the Director of Quarantine may provide for such inspections, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of infection to human beings, and other measures as in his judgment may be necessary. Regulations prescribed under this section shall not provide for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals except for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, or spread of such quarantinable diseases as may be specified from time to time in executive orders of the President upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Public Welfare. Whenever it is deemed necessary for the protection of the public health of the nation from quarantinable diseases, such immunization against them as are deemed necessary by the Director of Quarantine shall be mandatory on all persons arriving at any port of entry in the Philippines. The Secretary of Health and Public Welfare on the recommendation of the Director of Quarantine may prescribe rules and regulations under this section for the apprehension and examination of any individual believed to be infected with a communicable disease in an infectious stage on board vessels and aircraft entering any seaport or airport in the Philippines. Such rules and regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected or has been exposed to infection, as to be considered a dangerous contact, he may be detained aboard a vessel, in a hospital, at a quarantine detention station or at any place of isolation and in such a manner as may be prescribed by the said regulations.