The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020

N.I.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2020 No. 23

Public Health

F1The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

28th February 2020

Coming into operation

29th February 2020

The Department of Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967, makes the following Order:

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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)

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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.