New Zealand Legislation: Acts

4 Interpretation

• (1) Section 2(1) is amended by repealing the definition of quarantinable disease and inserting the following definitions in their appropriate alphabetical order:

  “craft means an aircraft, ship, or other device or machine, that can be used to carry or transport people or goods—

  • “(a) by air; or

  • “(b) on or under water

  “epidemic management notice means a notice under section 8(1) of the Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006

  “epidemic notice means a notice under section 5(1) of the Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006

  “passenger, in relation to a craft means any person in or on it who is not a member of its crew

  “quarantinable disease means a disease stated in Part 3 of Schedule 1”.

  (2) Section 2 is amended by adding the following subsection:

  • “(3) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, amend Part 3 of Schedule 1 by adding or omitting the name of a disease, or substituting a new name for a disease.”

  (3) The Part set out in the Schedule to this Act is added to Schedule 1.

  (4) The definition of quarantinable disease in regulation 2 of the Health (Quarantine) Regulations 1983 is consequentially revoked.