31Apprehension of persons liable to quarantine

#### 31 Apprehension of persons liable to quarantine (1) Any police officer or authorised person may, without warrant, apprehend: (a) any person who has, in contravention of this Act or the regulations, quitted any vessel subject to quarantine or any quarantine station; or (b) any person subject to quarantine (not being a person who is so subject by reason only of being or having been in a quarantine area or under quarantine surveillance) who is found in any place not being in or part of a quarantine station. (1A) Any police officer or authorised person may, without warrant, apprehend any person who is subject to quarantine by reason of having been in a quarantine area and whom he or she believes to have left that area in contravention of this Act. (2) Any person apprehended under this section shall be brought before a magistrate or quarantine officer, who may, on proof to his or her satisfaction that the person so brought before him or her is subject to quarantine, order him or her to be taken to the vessel from which he or she has landed or to a quarantine station to perform quarantine, or to be taken to the quarantine area from which he or she came, and may by warrant authorise any police officer or other person to take him or her accordingly, or may order him or her to be dealt with in accordance with the regulations. (4) A reference in this section to a vessel subject to quarantine shall be read as including a reference to an installation subject to quarantine.