N.I.
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2020 No. 23
Public Health
The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
Made
28th February 2020
Coming into operation
29th February 2020
Citation, commencement and interpretationN.I.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 29th February 2020.
(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 1 in operation at 29.2.2020, see art. 1(1)
Amendment of Schedule 1 to the ActN.I.
2.—(1) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be amended by the insertion of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
(2) Accordingly the notifiable diseases to which the Act applies from the commencement of this Order are those set out in the Schedule which shall be substituted for Schedule 1 to the Act.
Commencement Information
I2Art. 2 in operation at 29.2.2020, see art. 1(1)
RevocationN.I.
3. The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 1990(3) is revoked.
Commencement Information
I3Art. 3 in operation at 29.2.2020, see art. 1(1)
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 28 February 2020
(L.S.)
Nigel McMahon
A senior officer of the Department of Health
Article 2(2)
SCHEDULEN.I.Notifiable Diseases
Commencement Information
I4Sch. in operation at 29.2.2020, see art. 1(1)
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Acute encephalitis/meningitis: bacterial
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Acute encephalitis/meningitis: viral
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Anthrax
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Chickenpox
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Cholera
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
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Diphtheria
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Dysentery
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Food Poisoning
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Gastro-enteritis (persons under 2 years of age only)
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Hepatitis A
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Hepatitis B
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Hepatitis unspecified: viral
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Legionnaire’s Disease
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Leptospirosis
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Malaria
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Measles
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Meningococcal septicaemia
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Mumps
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Paratyphoid fever
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Plague
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Poliomyelitis: acute
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Rabies
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Relapsing fever
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Rubella
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Scarlet fever
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Smallpox
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Tetanus
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Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary
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Typhoid fever
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Typhus
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Viral haemorrhagic fevers
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Whooping cough
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Yellow fever
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the list of notifiable diseases specified by the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.
That Act requires a medical practitioner, as soon as he becomes aware, or has reasonable grounds for suspecting, that a person he is attending is suffering from a notifiable disease, to notify the Director of Public Health.
Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)
S. R. 1990 No. 66