Vol. 415, No. 20823, 28 January 2000
Regulation Gazette, No. 6720
No. R. 51
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AMENDMENT OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS ACT, 1974 (ACT No. 28 OF 1974}
The Minister of Health intends, in terms of section 3 (2) of the International Health Regulations Act, 1974 (Act No. 28 of 1974), to make the supplementary regulations in the Schedule.
Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations on the proposed regulations to the Director-General of Health, Private Bag X828, Pretoria, 0001 (for the attention of the Director: Environmental Health), within one month of the date of publication of this notice.
SCHEDULE
Amendment of regulation 1 of the Supplementary Regulations
(1) the deletion of the definition for "Executive Committee";
(2) the insertion of the following definition after the definition of "approved port":
" 'deratting' means rodent free which implies that during an inspection of an aircraft or vessel by a port health officer, such port health officer found no traces of the presence of rodents on board such an aircraft or vessel and 'derat' and 'deratted' will h eve a corresponding meaning;";
(3) the substitution for the definition "port health officer" of the following definition:
" 'port health officer' means a person appointed as such in terms of regulation 35 (2) by the Head of the provincial health administration concerned";
(4) the insertion of the following definitions after the definition of "port health officer":
" 'pratique' means permission for a ship to enter a port, disembark and commence operation, or for an aircraft, after landing, to disembark and commence operation;
'provincial health administration' means the provincial department responsible for health;";
(5) the insertion of the following definition after the definition of "the Act":
" 'the Head' means the chief executive officer of the provincial health administration concerned;"; and
(6) the substitution for the definition of "yellow fever endemic area of Africa" of the following definition:
" 'yellow fever endemic area' means the yellow fever endemic zones in North America, South America and Africa as described in the International Travel and Health publication of the World Health Organization.".
Amendment of Chapter I of the Supplementary Regulations
(1) the deletion in subregulation (1) of regulation 2 of the expression "of Africa";
(2) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 2 for the expression "district surgeon" of the expression "port health officer";
(3) the substitution for subregulation (2) of regulation 2 of the following subregulation:
"(2) Except on account of an accident or any emergency landing or with the approval of a port health officer, no person shall be permitted to disembark from any aircraft referred to in subregulation (1) at any place within the Republic which is not a sanitary airport.";
(4) the deletion of subregulation (3) of regulation 2;
(5) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 3 for the expression "sanitary" of the expression "international";
(6) the substitution in the words preceding paragraph (a) of regulation 4 for the expression "sanitary" of the expression "international";
(7) the deletion in subregulation (5) of regulation 8 of the expression "Executive Committee", wherever it occurs; and
(8) the substitution for words preceding paragraph (a) of regulation 9 of the following words:
"No aircraft shall be deratted except with the prior approval of the Head, and no such approval shall be granted unless the Head has satisfied himself or herself that -".
Amendment of Chapter 11 of the Supplementary Regulations
(1) the deletion in subregulation (5) of regulation 15 of the expression "Executive Committee", wherever it occurs;
(2) the substitution in paragraph (a) of substitution (1) of regulation 17 for the expression "cyanide fumigation as prescribed, or to some other" of the expression "an"; and
(3) the substitution for subregulation (2) of regulation 17 of the following subregulation:
"(2) If so required in writing by the port health officer, the master of a ship shall ensure that mice, rats or insects on board the ship are exterminated by means of fumigation or any other method as approved by the port health officer.".
Amendment of Chapter III of the Supplementary Regulations
(1) the substitution for the heading of Chapter al of the following heading:
"RAIL, ROAD AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC";
(2) the substitution for subregulation (1) of regulation 21 of the following subregulation:
"(1) The provisions of this Part shall be applied wholly or in part in respect of any such point of entry into the Republic for rail, road or pedestrian traffic as may be determined by the Minister from time to time by notice in the Gazette.";
(3) the deletion of subregulation (2) of regulation 21;
(4) the substitution for the heading of regulation 22 of the following heading:
"Requirements to be complied with by persons entering the Republic by rail or road or as pedestrian traffic";
(5) the substitution for the heading of regulation 24 of the following heading:
"Measures applicable in respect of goods, baggage and animals arriving by rail or road or as pedestrian traffic"; and
(6) the deletion in subregulation (5) of regulation 24 of the expression "Executive Committee", wherever it occurs.
Amendment of Chapter IV of the Supplementary Regulations
(1) the substitution for the first sentence of regulation 32 of the following sentence:
"Actual costs shall be levied in respect of the isolation of all persons who are isolated at any of the Republic's quarantine stations in terms of the Regulations."
(2) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 33 for the expression "R6,00 for the first cylinder load . . . on the same occasion" opposite item 1 of the expression "Actual costs";
(3) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 33 for the expression "R3,00 per charge of the fumigating chamber . . . 2,83 cubic metres" opposite item 11 of the expression "Actual costs";
(4) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 33 for the expression "According to extent and time taken: Minimum R6,00" opposite item III of the expression "Actual costs";
(5) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 33 for the expression "Receptacles of up to . . . officer of the Department of Health.)" opposite item IV of the expression "Actual costs";
(6) the substitution in subregulation (1) of regulation 33 for item VII of the following item:
VII. "For the issuance of a Deratting Certificate or a Deratting Exemption Certificate by a port health officer, a flat rate of R650,00 per certificate.";
(7) the insertion of the following item after item VII:
"VIII. For the transmission of a message relating to provisions of the Act or the Regulations, the actual charge for such radio-telephone call or telex or tele-fax, as the case may be.";
(8) the substitution in subregulation (2) of regulation 33 for the expression "rail and road" of the expression "rail, road and pedestrian"; and
(9) the substitution in subregulations (1) and (2) of regulation 34 for the amount "R200,00", wherever it occurs, of the amount of "R500,00".
"Appointment of port health officers
- (1) The Head may appoint a medical practitioner, an environmental health officer or any other person he or she deems fit to be a port health officer and perform the duties of a port health officer.
(2) Each port health officer appointed under subregulation (1) shall be issued with an identification document signed by or on behalf of the Head and certifying that such officer is empowered to conduct any inspection or investigation or perform any duty or act in terms of the Act or the Regulations.
(3) Whenever a port health officer conducts an inspection or investigation or performs any duty or act in terms of the Act or the Regulations -
- he or she shall, at the request of any person affected by the inspection or investigation, exhibit to such person the identification document issued to him or her in terms of subregulation (2); and
- he or she may take an interpreter or assistant with him or her and such interpreter or assistant, in so far as he or she acts under the direction of the port health officer, shall for the purposes of such an inspection, investigation, duty or act have the same powers as the port heath officer.".
Commencement of regulation 6 (7) and (8)
M. E. TSHABALALA-MSIMANG
Minister of Health