New Zealand PANDEMIC Plan: SPECIAL powers

… consider detaining people attempting to leave or enter an affected area   [ p. 83 ]

… Special powers are authorised by the Minister of Health

or by an epidemic notice or apply where an emergency has been declared [ p. 125 ]

… The power to detain, isolate or quarantine

allows a medical officer of health

to ‘require persons, places, buildings, ships, vehicles, aircraft, animals, or things

to be isolated, quarantined, or disinfected’ [ p. 125 ]

… The power to prescribe preventive treatment allows a medical officer of health,

in respect of any person who has been isolated or quarantined,

to require people to remain where they are isolated or quarantined

until they have been medically examined

and found to be free from infectious disease,

and until they have undergone such preventive treatment as the medical officer of health prescribes  [ p. 125 ]

… The power to requisition premises allows a medical officer of health to requisition premises and vehicles  [ p. 125 ]

… police may do anything reasonably necessary (including the use of force) to help a medical officer of health … in the exercise or performance of powers or functions   [ p. 125 ]