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Title: Communicable Disease Control Act CH
Category: Ministry of Health and Welfare(衛生福利部)
Chapter 5 Quarantine Measures
Article 58
Competent authorities may impose the following quarantine or measures on persons entering, exiting the country (border), and may collect associated fees:
1.provide quarantine information, anti-disease drugs, immunization, or issue warnings to persons visiting epidemic areas;
2.in accordance with regulations set by the central competent authority, carefully and accurately fill out and submit the communicable disease report forms and tables, and depending on the actual situation, present health certificates or other relevant certificates;
3.conduct health assessment or impose other quarantine measures;
4.impose home-based quarantine, group quarantine, isolation care or other necessary measures on persons entering from affected areas, contacts or suspected contacts, patients or suspected patients with communicable disease;
5.inform immigration authorities to restrict patients who have not been fully cured and are expected to infect others when exiting the country (border);
6.request organizations concerned to stop issuing permits for entering the country (border) to persons of certain countries or areas or providing other assistance.
For persons mentioned in the preceding Subparagraph 5, when no longer capable of infecting others, competent authorities shall immediately inform the immigration authorities to abolish their exit restrictions.
To the quarantine or the measures mentioned in Paragraph 1 enforced by competent authorities, persons entering or exiting the country (border) shall not refuse, evade or obstruct.
Article 59
To prevent communicable diseases from entering or leaving the country (border), the central competent authority may request organizations concerned to implement the following measures:
1.perform necessary disease control practices, quarantine measures on persons entering or exiting the country (border), transportation means and the cargos on them, and may collect fees;
2.based upon needs of disease control, request owners, managers, drivers or agents of transportation means to provide relevant documents required by the competent authorities; they shall not refuse, evade or obstruct, and shall maintain the sanitation of the transportation means.
Places and facilities needed for the relevant disease control practices, and the quarantine measures mentioned in the preceding Paragraph and Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, competent authorities concerned shall cooperate in providing or implementing.
Regulations governing methods of quarantine, procedures, control measures, management and other matters to be complied with for Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article; regulations governing target groups, amount, methods of payment, duration and other matters to be complied with for fees to be collected shall be decided by the central competent authority.
Article 60
When communicable diseases occur or are expected to occur on transportation means or cargos on them entering or leaving the country (border), competent authorities shall adopt the following measures:
1.take necessary control and disease control measures against the transportation means, losses so incurred shall not be compensated;
2.for articles imported into or brought into the country (border) by passengers, the importers or the passengers shall be ordered to ship back or destroy the articles, and losses so incurred shall not be compensated; for articles exported or taken out of the country (border) by passengers, the regulations outlined in Article 23 and Article 24 shall apply accordingly for the management of such articles.
For articles violating regulations set by the central competent authority , which govern declaration, or acceptance of quarantine or importation, competent authorities, without performing quarantine, may order the articles to be shipped back or destroyed, and no compensations shall be made.