MEASURES CONCERNING SUPERVISION OF SANITATION AT BORDER PORTS OFTHE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
MEASURES CONCERNING SUPERVISION OF SANITATION AT BORDER PORTS OFTHE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
This English document is coming from the "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GOVERNING FOREIGN-RELATED MATTERS" (1991.7)
which is compiled by the Brueau of Legislative Affairs of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China, and is published by the China
Legal System Publishing House.
In case of discrepancy, the original version in Chinese shall prevail.
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MEASURES CONCERNING SUPERVISION OF SANITATION AT BORDER PORTS OF
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
(Approved by the State Council on December 30, 1981 and promul-
gated by the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Communications,
General Administration of Civil Aviation of China and the Ministry of
Railways on February 4, 1982)
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1
These Measures are formulated, as required by Article 3 of the Frontier
Health and Quarantine Regulations of the People's Republic of China ,
to strengthen the supervision of sanitation at border ports and aboard
international means of transport, to improve their sanitary conditions and
to block up and extinguish sources of infection, cut off channels of
spreading, prevent infectious diseases from spreading into or out of the
country and protect the health of the people.
Article 2
These measures shall apply to sea ports, airports, railway stations and
passes open to the outside world (hereinafter generally referred to as
"border ports") and to international vessels, aircraft and vehicles
(hereinafter referred to as "means of transport") staying in these places.
Chapter II Sanitation Requirements at Border Ports
Article 3
A cleaning system shall be established in border ports to eliminate the
breeding grounds of flies and mosquitos, install litter bins and their
regular cleaning so as to keep the environment clean and tidy.
Article 4
Domestic refuse in border ports shall be removed every day and fixed
refuse dumps provided for that purpose shall be regularly cleared;
domestic sewage shall not be drained off indiscriminately and shall go
through disinfecting treatment so as to prevent the environment and water
sources from contamination.
Article 5
The departments concerned shall adopt feasible measures to reduce the
numbers of insect vectors and rodents to a harmless level in the buildings
of border ports.
Article 6
All floors of waiting rooms in piers, airports, stations and customs
houses shall be kept neat and clean, their walls dust-free and their
windows and tables bright and clean. They shall be well ventilated and
equipped with necessary sanitation facilities.
Article 7
A perfect sanitation system shall be established in restaurants, cafes,
canteens, dining rooms, kitchens, buffets and small shops in border ports
so as to regularly keep them clean and tidy and make their walls,
ceilings, tables and chairs clean and dustfree. The places shall be
provided with refrigeration equipment and equipment against mosquitos,
flies, mice and cockroaches and no such pests and rodents shall be found
inside these buildings.
Article 8
Attendants shall be put in charge of the toilets and bathrooms in border
ports, cleaning them regularly and keeping them clean and tidy so as to
rid them of flies and nasty odours.
Article 9
The warehouses, godowns and goods yards in border ports shall be kept
clean and tidy. When abnormal death of mice or rats is found, immediate
reports shall be given to health quarantine authorities or local public
health and epidemic prevention departments.
Article 10
The water sources for border ports shall be well protected and toilets,
seepage wells, etc. which will pollute the water sources shall not be
built within a distance of 30 meters in diameter from a water source.
Chapter III Sanitation Requirements for Means of Transport
Article 11
Means of transport shall be equipped with first-aid medicines and
equipment as well as disinfectants, insecticides and rodenticides. If
necessary, provisional quarantine rooms shall be arranged aboard ships.
Article 12
Provisions concerning the prevention and elimination of insect vectors and
rodents from means of transport:
(1) ships, aircraft and trains shall be provided with adequate preventive
measures against rodents so as to eliminate them or to reduce their
numbers to a harmless level;
(2) these means of transport shall be kept free from mosquitos, flies or
other harmful insects, which shall be eliminated upon discovery.
Article 13
The toilets and bathrooms on means of transport shall be kept clean, tidy
and free from unpleasant odours.
Article 14
The sanitation requirements for the disposal of excrement, urine, refuse
and sewage on means of transport are as follows:
(1) daily refuse shall be put in containers with covers, prohibited from
being dumped indiscriminately into port areas, airports or station areas
and must be removed by means of special refuse vehicles (or vessels) to
designated places for treatment. If necessary, excrement, urine and sewage
shall go through sanitary treatment before being disposed of;
(2) the refuse in solid form on board means of transport from epidemic
areas of plague shall be disposed of by incineration, while the excrement,
urine, ballast water and sewage on board means of transport from the
epidemic areas of cholera shall be sterilized if necessary.
Article 15
The sanitation requirements for cargo holds, luggage cars, postal cars and
freight cars of means of transport as well as trucks are as follows:
(1) such insect vectors and harmful animals as mosquitos, flies,
cockroaches and mice and conditions favourable for their breeding shall be
eliminated from cargo holds, luggage cars, postal cars, freight cars and
trucks which shall be thoroughly cleaned before goods are being loaded or
unloaded so as to be free of excrement, urine and refuse;
(2) the freight cars or trucks carrying poisonous substances and food
shall be placed separately in different designated places so as to avoid
contamination and shall be thoroughly cleaned after goods are completely
unloaded;
(3) the luggage and goods from epidemic areas shall be carefully examined
so that no insect vectors and rodents shall subsist therein.
Article 16
The sanitation requirements for passenger cabins, lodging cabins and
passenger cars of means of transport as well as passenger vehicles are as
follows:
(1) passenger cabins, lodging cabins, passenger cars and other passenger
vehicles shall be cleaned whenever necessary, kept free of refuse and dust
and well ventilated;
(2) beddings shall be replaced and washed after use each time and be free
of lice, fleas, bedbugs or other insect vectors.
Chapter IV Sanitation Requirements for Food, Drinking Water and Personnel Engaged in These Trades
Article 17
The food supplied to border ports and on means of transport shall conform
to the provisions in the Regulations of People's Republic of China on Food
Hygienic Control and food hygienic standards.
Article 18
The drinking water supplied to border ports and on means of transport
shall conform to Hygienic Standards of Drinking Water stipulated by the
state. The vehicles used in transporting drinking water as well as storage
containers and water pipelines shall be cleaned regularly and kept clean.
Article 19
The health requirements for personnel engaged in supplying food and
drinking water as follows:
(1) the patients or carriers of infectious intestinal diseases or
sufferers from active tuberculosis or suppurative exudative dermatosis
shall not be engaged in supplying food and drinking water;
(2) all personnel engaged in the supply of food and drinking water shall
go through a medical check-up every year. Those newly engaged in this work
shall first have a medical check-up and those proved up to the standard
shall be granted health certificates;
(3) the personnel engaged in the supply of food and drinking water shall
cultivate good hygienic habits, dress neatly and cleanly at work and
strictly abide by the hygienic operation system.
Chapter V The Duties of Persons in Charge of Border Ports and Means of Transport
Article 20
The duties of the officers in charge of border ports and means of
transport pertaining to sanitation and hygiene are as follows:
(1) to do a good job in keeping up to the sanitation and hygiene
standards, and be always ready for the supervision and inspection by the
sanitary supervision personnel and provide them with facilities for their
work;
(2) to play an exemplary role in abiding by these Measures and other
sanitation decrees, regulations and provisions;
(3) to promptly adopt remedial measures to change the unsanitary
conditions of border ports and the means of transport in accordance with
the advice of the sanitation supervisors;
(4) to report to the border health quarantine authorities or local
epidemic prevention department and immediately adopt epidemic prevention
measures when a quarantine infectious disease or a monitored one is found.
Chapter VI The Responsibilities of Sanitation Supervision Authori- ties
Article 21
The health quarantine authorities in border ports shall exercise
sanitation supervision over border ports and means of transport under the
leadership of local people's governments. Their major responsibilities
are:
(1) to supervise and direct the officers in charge of the departments
concerned in border ports and on means of transport in the prevention and
elimination of insect vectors and rodents;
(2) to examine the food and drinking water on board means of transport
parked in border ports and ready to cross border in both directions and
exercise sanitation supervision over systems of transport, supply and
storage facilities;
(3) to carry out examination, supervision and hygienic treatment of
persons who have died from causes other than accidents in border ports and
on board means of transport;
(4) to supervise the officers in charge of the departments concerned in
border ports and means of transport in the removal and treatment of
excrement, urine, refuse and sewage;
(5) to exercise sanitation supervision over environmental factors which
are of epidemiological significance to quarantine and monitored infectious
diseases;
(6) to monitor the implementation of the measures to prevent mosquitoes
from breeding in the vicinity of border ports; and
(7) to conduct hygiene publicity and education, spread hygiene knowledge
among people and heighten the consciousness of the personnel in border
ports and on means of transport to abide by and implement these Measures.
Article 22
A border port health quarantine organ shall be provided with 1 to 5 border
port sanitation supervisors to carry out the tasks of sanitation
supervision and such ports shall be concurrently held by the leading
cadres and professional personnel above the rank of quarantine doctor of
the border port health quarantine organ, who are of commendable
personality and great conscientiousness in work. Border port sanitation
supervisors shall be recommended by health quarantine authorities,
screened by the public health administration authorities of the provinces,
municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous
regions, and appointed by the Ministry of Public Health of the People's
Republic of China and granted Certificates of Border Port Sanitation
Supervisors.
Article 23
On the strength of their certificates, border port sanitation supervisors
shall have the right to exercise sanitation supervision, inspection and
technical guidance over the officers in charge of border ports and means
of transport; they may in conjunction with departments concerned, put
forward proposals for improvement to the units or individuals concerned
whose sanitation work is dissatisfactory and has resulted in the spread of
infectious disease and take necessary measures to deal with them in
conjunction with the departments concerned.
Chapter VII Rewards and Punishments
Article 24
Border port quarantine authorities shall commend and reward units and
individuals that have made remarkable achievements in the implementation
of these Measures and the state decrees, regulations and provisions
relating to public health.
Article 25
Border port health quarantine authorities shall, on the merit of each
case, warn or fine the units and individuals that have contravened these
Measures and the decrees, regulations and provisions relating to public
health and may submit the cases to the judicial organs for punishment
according to law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provision
Article 26
These Measures shall go into effect as of the date of promulgation.
Notes:
The said Regulations were nullified by Frontier Health and Quarantine
Law of the People's Republic of China adopted by the Standing Committee of
the Sixth National People's Congress on December 2, 1986, the Measures
shall be effective. The said Regulations were nullified by Food
Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China (For Trial Implementation)
adopted by the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress
on November 19, 1982 and the Law shall apply instead - The Editor.
ds are completely
unloaded;
(3) the luggage and goods from epidemic areas shall be carefully examined
so that no insect vectors and rodents shall subsist therein.
Article 16
The sanitation requirements for passenger cabins, lodging cabins and
passenger cars of means of transport as well as passenger vehicles are as
follows:
(1) passenger cabins, lodging cabins, passenger cars and other passenger
vehicles shall be cleaned whenever necessary, kept free of refuse and dust
and well ventilated;
(2) beddings shall be replaced and washed after use each time and be free
of lice, fleas, bedbugs or other insect vectors.
Chapter IV Sanitation Requirements for Food, Drinking Water and Personnel Engaged in These Trades
Article 17
The food supplied to border ports and on means of transport shall conform
to the provisions in the Regulations of People's Republic of China on Food
Hygienic Control and food hygienic standards.
Article 18
The drinking water supplied to border ports and on means of transport
shall conform to Hygienic Standards of Drinking Water stipulated by the
state. The vehicles used in transporting drinking water as well as storage
containers and water pipelines shall be cleaned regularly and kept clean.
Article 19
The health requirements for personnel engaged in supplying food and
drinking water as follows:
(1) the patients or carriers of infectious intestinal diseases or
sufferers from active tuberculosis or suppurative exudative dermatosis
shall not be engaged in supplying food and drinking water;
(2) all personnel engaged in the supply of food and drinking water shall
go through a medical check-up every year. Those newly engaged in this work
shall first have a medical check-up and those proved up to the standard
shall be granted health certificates;
(3) the personnel engaged in the supply of food and drinking water shall
cultivate good hygienic habits, dress neatly and cleanly at work and
strictly abide by the hygienic operation system.
Chapter V The Duties of Persons in Charge of Border Ports and Means of Transport
Article 20
The duties of the officers in charge of border ports and means of
transport pertaining to sanitation and hygiene are as follows:
(1) to do a good job in keeping up to the sanitation and hygiene
standards, and be always ready for the supervision and inspection by the
sanitary supervision personnel and provide them with facilities for their
work;
(2) to play an exemplary role in abiding by these Measures and other
sanitation decrees, regulations and provisions;
(3) to promptly adopt remedial measures to change the unsanitary
conditions of border ports and the means of transport in accordance with
the advice of the sanitation supervisors;
(4) to report to the border health quarantine authorities or local
epidemic prevention department and immediately adopt epidemic prevention
measures when a quarantine infectious disease or a monitored one is found.
Chapter VI The Responsibilities of Sanitation Supervision Authori- ties
Article 21
The health quarantine authorities in border ports shall exercise
sanitation supervision over border ports and means of transport under the
leadership of local people's governments. Their major responsibilities
are:
(1) to supervise and direct the officers in charge of the departments
concerned in border ports and on means of transport in the prevention and
elimination of insect vectors and rodents;
(2) to examine the food and drinking water on board means of transport
parked in border ports and ready to cross border in both directions and
exercise sanitation supervision over systems of transport, supply and
storage facilities;
(3) to carry out examination, supervision and hygienic treatment of
persons who have died from causes other than accidents in border ports and
on board means of transport;
(4) to supervise the officers in charge of the departments concerned in
border ports and means of transport in the removal and treatment of
excrement, urine, refuse and sewage;
(5) to exercise sanitation supervision over environmental factors which
are of epidemiological significance to quarantine and monitored infectious
diseases;
(6) to monitor the implementation of the measures to prevent mosquitoes
from breeding in the vicinity of border ports; and
(7) to conduct hygiene publicity and education, spread hygiene knowledge
among people and heighten the consciousness of the personnel in border
ports and on means of transport to abide by and implement these Measures.
Article 22
A border port health quarantine organ shall be provided with 1 to 5 border
port sanitation supervisors to carry out the tasks of sanitation
supervision and such ports shall be concurrently held by the leading
cadres and professional personnel above the rank of quarantine doctor of
the border port health quarantine organ, who are of commendable
personality and great conscientiousness in work. Border port sanitation
supervisors shall be recommended by health quarantine authorities,
screened by the public health administration authorities of the provinces,
municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous
regions, and appointed by the Ministry of Public Health of the People's
Republic of China and granted Certificates of Border Port Sanitation
Supervisors.
Article 23
On the strength of their certificates, border port sanitation supervisors
shall have the right to exercise sanitation supervision, inspection and
technical guidance over the officers in charge of border ports and means
of transport; they may in conjunction with departments concerned, put
forward proposals for improvement to the units or individuals concerned
whose sanitation work is dissatisfactory and has resulted in the spread of
infectious disease and take necessary measures to deal with them in
conjunction with the departments concerned.
Chapter VII Rewards and Punishments
Article 24
Border port quarantine authorities shall commend and reward units and
individuals that have made remarkable achievements in the implementation
of these Measures and the state decrees, regulations and provisions
relating to public health.
Article 25
Border port health quarantine authorities shall, on the merit of each
case, warn or fine the units and individuals that have contravened these
Measures and the decrees, regulations and provisions relating to public
health and may submit the cases to the judicial organs for punishment
according to law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provision
Article 26
These Measures shall go into effect as of the date of promulgation.
Notes:
The said Regulations were nullified by Frontier Health and Quarantine
Law of the People's Republic of China adopted by the Standing Committee of
the Sixth National People's Congress on December 2, 1986, the Measures
shall be effective. The said Regulations were nullified by Food
Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China (For Trial Implementation)
adopted by the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress
on November 19, 1982 and the Law shall apply instead - The Editor.
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