Quarantine Act. Country/Territory Jamaica Document type Legislation Date 1951 (1993) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock, Cultivated plants Keyword Animal health Pests/diseases Quarantine Plant protection Geographical area Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States Abstract This Act establishes the Quarantine Authority as a body corporate. It shall consist of a Chairman and four other members to be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 3. The Minister may make regulations, as respects the whole or any part of the Jamaica, including the ports and coastal waters thereof, for preventing: (a) danger to public health from ships or aircraft or persons or things therein, arriving at any place; and (b) the spread of infection by means of any ship or aircraft about to leave any place, or by means any person or thing about to leave any place in any ship or aircraft. The Quarantine Authority may make rules for implementing or carrying into effect any regulations in force by virtue of section 7, and for supplementing any such regulations as regards any matters for which the Quarantine Authority may deem it expedient to provide. When in the opinion of the Quarantine Authority an emergency exists, the Quarantine Authority may, by order, direct special measures to be taken during the continuance of that emergency for any of the purposes specified in this Act. (12 sections) Full text English Website www.moj.gov.jm References - Legislation Amended by Health and Allied Professions and Services (Miscellaneous Penalty Provisions) Act, 2011 (No. 7 of 2011). Legislation | Jamaica | 2011 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Offences/penalties, Quarantine, Animal health, Pesticides Source: FAO, FAOLEX