42Quarantine surveillance periods

#### 42 Quarantine surveillance periods (1) For subsection 34(3) of the Act, the prescribed period is 30 days. > Note: Subsection 34(3) of the Act provides that certain persons continue to be subject to quarantine until such period as is prescribed, and, while so subject, are under quarantine surveillance and must comply with the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance. (2) A person ordered into quarantine under section 35, 35AA or 35A of the Act, and released under quarantine surveillance, remains under quarantine surveillance for the period mentioned in subregulation (3) for the disease for which the person was ordered into quarantine. (3) For subregulation (2), the following periods apply: (a) for cholera—5 days; (b) for plague—7 days; (c) for rabies—14 days; (d) for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—10 days; (e) for smallpox—21 days; (f) for viral haemorrhagic fever—21 days; (g) for yellow fever—6 days; (h) for active pulmonary tuberculosis—12 weeks; (i) for any other disease—30 days. > Note 1: Cholera, plague, rabies, SARS, smallpox, viral haemorrhagic fevers and yellow fever are declared to be quarantinable diseases under: (a) section 21 of the Quarantine Proclamation 1998; and (b) section 11 of the Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Proclamation 2004; and (c) section 11 of the Quarantine (Christmas Island) Proclamation 2004. > Note 2: See subsections 35AA(5) and 45(3) of the Act in relation to the release of a person under quarantine surveillance. (4) A period mentioned in subregulation (1) or (3) starts at the end of the last day when, in the opinion of a quarantine officer (human quarantine) the person was, or might have been, exposed to infection by a quarantinable disease, a communicable disease or active pulmonary tuberculosis.