Communicable Diseases Act, B.E. 2558 (2015) · Chapter VI Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases

Section 39

In conducting prevention and control of global communicable diseases, when there are reasonable grounds or there is a suspicion that a conveyance comes from any locality or port city outside the Kingdom where there is an epidemic, the communicable disease control officer stationed at an international communicable disease control checkpoint shall have the power and duties as follows:

(1) to require the conveyance owner or conveyance operator to notify a specified arrival date, time and place of such conveyance at the international communicable disease control checkpoint to a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint;

(2) to require the conveyance owner or conveyance operator whose conveyance has entered the Kingdom to submit documents to a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint;

(3) to prohibit any person from entering or leaving the conveyance travelling into the Kingdom which has not been inspected by a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint, and to prohibit any person from bringing any other conveyance up alongside such conveyance, unless permission from a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint has been obtained;

(4) to enter the conveyance and examine travellers, physical items or animals in the conveyance, and to inspect and control the conveyance owner or conveyance operator to improve sanitation of the conveyance to ensure hygienic conditions, as well as to eliminate materials in the conveyance which may be harmful to health. In this regard, the conveyance owner or conveyance operator shall provide convenience to the communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint;

(5) to prohibit the conveyance owner or conveyance operator from bringing into the Kingdom travellers who have not received immunisation as prescribed in the Notifications by the Minister by and with the advice of the Committee.

The notification and the submission of documents by the conveyance owner or conveyance operator under (1) and (2), and the prohibition for the conveyance owner or conveyance operator under (5) shall be in accordance with the criteria, procedures and conditions prescribed in the Ministerial Regulations.

Unofficial English translation by the Division of Legal Affairs, Department of Disease Control (August 2025); the Thai text prevails.