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L. S. NO. 2 TO GAZETTE NO. 23/2008 :(a) the health officer has reason to suspect that a contact or a person infected with a specified infectious disease is present on the premises;
 * (b) the health officer has reason to suspect that a case or suspected case of a specified infectious disease is connected with the premises; or
 * (c) the health officer has reason to suspect that a source of a specified infectious disease exists on the premises.

(5) The power conferred by a warrant issued under subsection (4) on a health officer may be exercised by any health officer either alone or with the assistance of other persons.

(6) In this section, “residential premises” (住用處所) means a place or part of a place that is used wholly or principally for dwelling purposes and constitutes a separate household unit, but does not include the following—
 * (a) a home for the aged, child care centre, convalescent centre or a similar establishment;
 * (b) a point of entry;
 * (c) a cross-boundary conveyance; and
 * (d) a place of quarantine or isolation.

11. Maintaining points of entry, cross-boundary aircrafts, vessels or public vehicles in sanitary condition

(1) The operator of a point of entry or a cross-boundary aircraft, cross-boundary vessel or cross-boundary public vehicle shall ensure, as far as practicable, that the point of entry or cross-boundary aircraft, cross-boundary vessel or cross-boundary public vehicle is maintained in a sanitary condition.

(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.

12. Health officers may enter and inspect points of entry and cross-boundary conveyances

(1) A health officer may enter, without a warrant, a point of entry or a cross-boundary conveyance for the purpose of inspecting whether the point of entry, the cross-boundary conveyance or any article in or carried in or on it—
 * (a) is maintained in a sanitary condition; and
 * (b) is kept free from sources of an infectious disease or contamination.

(2) On entering a point of entry or a cross-boundary conveyance under subsection (1), a health officer may, for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition of the point of entry or cross-boundary conveyance—