Quarantine Act. Pays/Territoire Jamaïque Type du document Législation Date 1951 (1993) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Bétail, Plantes cultivées Mot clé Santé des animaux Parasites/maladies Quarantaine Protection des végétaux Aire géographique Amériques, Caraïbes, Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Petits états insulaires en développement Résumé 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) Texte intégral Anglais Site web www.moj.gov.jm Références - Législation Amendé par Health and Allied Professions and Services (Miscellaneous Penalty Provisions) Act, 2011 (No. 7 of 2011). Législation | Jamaïque | 2011 Mot clé: Contrôle de qualité alimentaire/innocuité des produits alimentaires, Hygiène/procédures sanitaires, Infractions/sanctions, Quarantaine, Santé des animaux, Pesticides Source: FAO, FAOLEX