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Infectious Diseases Act 1976 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Prevention of International Spread of Infectious Diseases

45B. Medical examination of persons leaving Singapore

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2024. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

The appropriate Minister may, for the purpose of preventing the spread of an infectious disease out of Singapore, by written order —

(a)

require all or any persons or class of persons leaving Singapore to undergo any medical examination specified in the order within or at such time and at such place, as may be specified in the order; and

(b)

impose any condition that the appropriate Minister thinks fit on that person or those persons.

(2)

Any person (including any person in a class of persons) given an order under subsection (1) who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to comply with the order shall be guilty of an offence.

(3)

Notice of the appropriate Minister’s written order must be published in the Gazette for general information.

Terms defined in s 2

appropriate Minister
Defined · s 2
“appropriate Minister” means —(a)in the following cases, the Minister charged with the responsibility for health and sanitary measures in relation to vessels, aircraft, vehicles and persons entering or leaving Singapore:(i)the establishment of any advisory committee under section 5 for the purpose of giving advice to the Director‑General or the Director‑General, Food Administration;(ii)any purpose relating to sections 28, 29 and 33 to 45, including the making of subsidiary legislation in relation to any of those sections; or(b)in any other case, the Minister charged with the responsibility for regulation of diseases and disease control;
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infectious disease
Defined · s 2
“infectious disease” means —(a)any of the diseases specified in the First Schedule; and(b)for the purposes of sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17A, 19, 55, 57A and 59A, includes any other disease —(i)that is caused or is suspected to be caused by a micro‑organism or any agent of disease;(ii)that is capable or is suspected to be capable of transmission by any means to human beings; and(iii)that, the Director has reason to believe, if left uninvestigated or unchecked, is likely to result in an epidemic of the disease;
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medical examination
Defined · s 2
“medical examination” includes the carrying out by a person (called the examiner) of any of the measures mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f), with a view to ascertaining a person’s state of health, whether or not the examiner is present with the person being examined:(a)physical examination of the person;(b)obtaining the person’s bodily samples;(c)obtaining images of, or measuring, the person’s physiology;(d)measuring or monitoring the person’s physiological signs;(e)obtaining the clinical history of the person;(f)a measure to facilitate the carrying out of anything in paragraphs (a) to (e);
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