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

Section 40

When the Minister has announced the designation of any locality or port city outside the Kingdom as a disease infected zone under section 8, a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint shall have the power to carry out, or issue a written order instructing the conveyance owner or conveyance operator whose conveyance has entered the Kingdom from such locality or port city to carry out the following:

(1) to conduct a disinfection in order to prevent and control the transmission of the disease;

(2) to arrange the conveyance to park at a specified place until a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint has permitted it to leave;

(3) to require travellers in such conveyance to have a medical check-up and, in this regard, the travellers may be isolated, quarantined or controlled for observation or may receive immunisation at a specified place and time;

(4) to prohibit any person from entering or leaving such conveyance or isolated places, unless permission from a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint has been obtained;

(5) to prohibit any person from taking objects, physical items or appliances, which are, or are suspected of being disease-infected material, into or out of such conveyance, unless permission from a communicable disease control officer stationed at the international communicable disease control checkpoint has been obtained.

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