2020 No. 23

Public Health

F1The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

Coming into operation

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:

Annotations:

Citation, commencement and interpretationF11

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Amendment of Schedule 1 to the ActF12

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RevocationF13

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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 28 February 2020

(L.S.)Nigel McMahonA senior officer of the Department of Health

F1SCHEDULENotifiable Diseases

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.