Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2009)
Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2009)
Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2009)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.18
August 27, 2009
(Adopted at the 18th session of the Standing Committee of the 6th National People's Congress on December 2, 1986; promulgated by the Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.46 on December 2, 1986; amended for the first time according to the Decision on the Revision of the Border Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 31st session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on December 29, 2007; and amended for the second time according to the Decision on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on August 27, 2009)
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Quarantine
Chapter III Monitoring of Infectious Diseases
Chapter IV Health Supervision
Chapter V Legal Liability
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This law is hereby established for the purposes of preventing infectious diseases from spreading into or out of the country, enforcing frontier health and quarantine inspection, and for the general protection of human health.
Article 2 Frontier health and quarantine offices shall be established at all international seaports, airports and ports of entry on land borders and boundary rivers (hereinafter referred to as "border ports") of the People's Republic of China. The said offices shall carry out the quarantining and monitoring of infectious diseases and health inspection in accordance with provisions of this law.
Health administration departments under administration of the State Council shall be in charge of frontier health and quarantine work throughout the country.
Article 3 Infectious diseases specified in this law shall include quarantinable infectious diseases and infectious diseases to be monitored.
Quarantinable infectious diseases shall include: plague, cholera, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases as specified and announced by the State Council.
Infectious diseases to be monitored shall be determined and announced by health administration departments under control of the State Council.
Article 4 All persons, vehicles and transport equipment, as well as other articles such as baggage, goods, and postal parcels that may transmit quarantinable infectious diseases, shall be subject to quarantine inspection upon entering or exiting the country. Entry or exit out of the country by said persons and others shall not be allowed without express permission from a frontier health and quarantine office. Detailed measures for implementing this article shall be articulated in the implementing rules of this law.
Article 5 If a frontier health and quarantine office should detect a quarantinable infectious disease or an infectious disease suspected to be quarantinable, the frontier health and quarantine office shall, in addition to taking all necessary measures, notify local health administration departments immediately and report to the health administration departments under the State Council as soon as possible (no later than 24 hours after detection of the quarantinable infectious disease or an infectious disease suspected to be quarantinable).
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Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.18
August 27, 2009
(Adopted at the 18th session of the Standing Committee of the 6th National People's Congress on December 2, 1986; promulgated by the Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.46 on December 2, 1986; amended for the first time according to the Decision on the Revision of the Border Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 31st session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on December 29, 2007; and amended for the second time according to the Decision on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on August 27, 2009)
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Quarantine
Chapter III Monitoring of Infectious Diseases
Chapter IV Health Supervision
Chapter V Legal Liability
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This law is hereby established for the purposes of preventing infectious diseases from spreading into or out of the country, enforcing frontier health and quarantine inspection, and for the general protection of human health.
Article 2 Frontier health and quarantine offices shall be established at all international seaports, airports and ports of entry on land borders and boundary rivers (hereinafter referred to as "border ports") of the People's Republic of China. The said offices shall carry out the quarantining and monitoring of infectious diseases and health inspection in accordance with provisions of this law.
Health administration departments under administration of the State Council shall be in charge of frontier health and quarantine work throughout the country.
Article 3 Infectious diseases specified in this law shall include quarantinable infectious diseases and infectious diseases to be monitored.
Quarantinable infectious diseases shall include: plague, cholera, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases as specified and announced by the State Council.
Infectious diseases to be monitored shall be determined and announced by health administration departments under control of the State Council.
Article 4 All persons, vehicles and transport equipment, as well as other articles such as baggage, goods, and postal parcels that may transmit quarantinable infectious diseases, shall be subject to quarantine inspection upon entering or exiting the country. Entry or exit out of the country by said persons and others shall not be allowed without express permission from a frontier health and quarantine office. Detailed measures for implementing this article shall be articulated in the implementing rules of this law.
Article 5 If a frontier health and quarantine office should detect a quarantinable infectious disease or an infectious disease suspected to be quarantinable, the frontier health and quarantine office shall, in addition to taking all necessary measures, notify local health administration departments immediately and report to the health administration departments under the State Council as soon as possible (no later than 24 hours after detection of the quarantinable infectious disease or an infectious disease suspected to be quarantinable).
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