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The Health Protection Agency Order (Northern Ireland) 2007
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- 2007 No. 331
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Section 2(10) of the Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (“the Act”) enables the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety by order to confer on the Health Protection Agency (“the Agency”) a function of any description falling within section 2(1) of the Act to the extent that it is exercisable for the purposes of a transferred matter. Section 2(1) of the Act includes: (a) the functions of the protection of the community (or any part of the community) against infectious disease and other dangers to health; (b) the prevention of the spread of disease; and (c) the provision of assistance to any other person who exercises functions in relation to those matters.
This Order provides for the Agency to have health protection functions in relation to Northern Ireland in connection with implementation of the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization (“the IHR”). Article 3 confers on the Agency the new IHR related functions, namely the function of assessing events that might constitute a public health emergency of international concern (within the meaning of the IHR), and thereafter by acting as the UK National IHR Focal Point for Northern Ireland interests. The Agency is also given the function, again for centralised notification reasons from the UK, of sending to the World Health Organization pursuant to Article 20.3 of the IHR lists of ports authorised to offer Ship Sanitation Control Certificates and Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificates in Northern Ireland.
The full text of the IHR is available on the World Health Organization website, www.who.int/est/ihr/IHRWHA58_3-en.pdf.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
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