(b) conferring powers and imposing duties in connection with sexually transmitted disease on district
administrators and district officers, Government medical or other officers, local authorities, medical officers of health, employers of labour and chiefs or headmen;
(c) adapting, within such area as may be defined, this Part and the procedure thereunder to the understanding and special circumstances of different classes of persons;
(d) providing for the effective enforcement of this Part as regards different classes of persons, and assigning, where deemed desirable, responsibility in connection therewith to local authorities or employers of
labour;
(e) as to the management, maintenance and inspection of hospitals or other institutions for the purposes of
this Part and the appointment and duties of persons employed therein or otherwise in connection with
the carrying out or enforcement of this Part;
(f) as to the classification, treatment, control and discipline of persons treated or detained in such hospitals
or institutions, and prescribing compulsory work for such persons where deemed desirable;
(g) prescribing the precautions to be taken by persons infected with or attending on or having the care or
charge of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease;
and, generally, for the better carrying out and the attaining of the objects and purposes of this Part.
(2) Any person who contravenes any regulations made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both
such fine and such imprisonment.
[Section amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997 and by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001]
PART V
INTERNATIONAL S ANITARY REGULATIONS
59 Publication of International Sanitary Regulations and amendments thereto
(1) The International Sanitary Regulations shall be published in statutory instrument as soon as may be after
the 25th July, 1953, and any amendment thereto shall be published in a statutory instrument as soon as may be
after Zimbabwe becomes a party to such amendment.
(2) Every amendment to the International Sanitary Regulations to which Zimbabwe becomes a party shall be
laid before Parliament on one of the thirty days on which Parliament next sits after the publication of the amendment in a statutory instrument.
60 Power to carry out and apply International Sanitary Regulations
The President may—
(a) by statutory instrument, designate any airport in Zimbabwe as a sanitary airport and may, by like notice,
cancel any such designation of an airport;
(b) do such other acts as he may deem necessary or expedient for giving effect to the terms of the International Sanitary Regulations or any regulations which have, in terms of section sixty-two, been applied to
infectious diseases to which the International Sanitary Regulations do not apply.
61 Regulations
(1) The President may by regulation—
(a) make such provision as appears to him necessary or expedient for the carrying out of and giving effect
to the International Sanitary Regulations;
(b) subject to the International Sanitary Regulations, impose fees and provide for the recovery of any expenditure incurred in giving effect to the International Sanitary Regulations.
(2) Any regulations made under subsection (1) may prescribe penalties for any contravention thereof, but no
such penalty shall exceed a fine of level six or imprisonment for a period of one year or both such fine and such
imprisonment.
[Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001]
62 Power to apply regulations to any infectious disease
(1) The President may, by proclamation, apply to any infectious disease to which the International Sanitary
Regulations do not apply any regulations made under section sixty-one, subject to such exceptions, adaptations
and modifications as he may deem necessary or expedient and as shall be spec ified in such proclamation.
(2) A proclamation under subsection (1) may be amended or revoked by subsequent proclamation.
63 Jurisdiction
An offence under any regulation shall, with regard to the jurisdiction of a court to try the offence, be deemed
to have been committed in any place where the accused happens to be.
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