(1)Subject to subsection (2), in this Part “notifiable disease” means a disease specified in Schedule 1.
(2)The Ministry may by order amend Schedule 1 so as to—
(a)extend the application of the provisions of this Part which relate to notifiable diseases by adding, for the purpose of all or any of those provisions, any other infectious disease,
(b)restrict the application of all or any of those provisions by excluding, for all or any of the purposes thereof, any disease so specified.