Quarantine Act

Arrangement of Sections

1. Short title.

2. Interpretation.

3. Power to declare any place an infected local area.

4. Regulations.

5. Penalties.

6. Provision of sanitary stations.

7. Jurisdiction of magistrates.

8. State quarantine and powers.

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An Act to provide for and regulate the imposition of quarantine and to make other provisions for preventing the introduction into and spread in Nigeria, and the transmission from Nigeria, of dangerous infectious diseases.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

"dangerous infectious disease" means cholera, plague, yellow fever, smallpox and typhus, and includes any disease of an infectious or contagious nature which the President may, by notice, declare to be a dangerous infectious disease within the meaning of this Act;

"local area" means a well-defined area, such as a local government area, a department, a canton, an island, a commune, a town, a quarter of a town, a village, a port, an agglomeration, whatever may be the extent and population of such areas.

3. Power to declare any place an infected local area

The President may, by notice, declare any place whether within or without Nigeria to be an infected local area, and thereupon such place shall be an infected local area within the meaning of this Act.

4. Regulations

The President may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes-