2020 No. 23
The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
Made
Coming into operation
Citation, commencement and interpretationI11
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.
Amendment of Schedule 1 to the ActI22
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.
RevocationI33
The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 19903 is revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 28 February 2020
I4SCHEDULENotifiable Diseases
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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
(This note is not part of the Order)
Sch. in operation at 29.2.2020, see art. 1(1)