AMENDMENTS TO QUARANTINE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 15 ENTITLED “PRESENTATION OF SMALLPOX VACCINATION CERTIFICATE”

1.       A valid smallpox vaccination certificate issued within the
last three years is required from all persons from abroad upon arrival
at Philippine ports.

2.       Passengers and members of the crew from an area not
infected with smallpox who are not in possession of valid certificates
of vaccination are subject to vaccination and/or surveillance.

3.       Passengers and crew members coming from smallpox-infected
areas who are not in possession of valid certificates of vaccination are
subject to vaccination and surveillance and if vaccination is refused,
they shall be isolated at a quarantine station for a period of 14 days
reckoned from the date of departure from the port of embarkation.

4.       The company operating the carrier where the person under
surveillance was a passenger or crew member shall be responsible for the
presentation of the passenger or crew members to the Bureau of
Quarantine every day for a period of fourteen (14) days.  Furthermore
the company operating the carrier where the person to be isolated was a
passenger or crew member shall shoulder all expenses incidental to such
isolation for a period of 14 days.

5.       Refusal of the company to take the responsibility for
presenting the passenger or crew member under surveillance to the office
of the Bureau of Quarantine for 14 days shall subject the company for
prosecution in accordance with law for violation of quarantine
regulations.

A copy of Quarantine Administrative Order No. 15 is hereto attached for ready reference.

Adopted: 7 April 1953

(SGD.) R. ABRIOL
Colonel, B. Q.
Director of Quarantine

Effective: 7 April 1953