2020 No. 23

Public Health

The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Health1, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 19672, makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

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 Act2

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.

Revocation3

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

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

SCHEDULENotifiable Diseases

Article 2(2)

  • Acute encephalitis/meningitis: bacterial

  • Acute encephalitis/meningitis: viral

  • Anthrax

  • Chickenpox

  • Cholera

  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

  • Diphtheria

  • Dysentery

  • Food Poisoning

  • Gastro-enteritis (persons under 2 years of age only)

  • Hepatitis A

  • Hepatitis B

  • Hepatitis unspecified: viral

  • Legionnaire’s Disease

  • Leptospirosis

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • Meningococcal septicaemia

  • Mumps

  • Paratyphoid fever

  • Plague

  • Poliomyelitis: acute

  • Rabies

  • Relapsing fever

  • Rubella

  • Scarlet fever

  • Smallpox

  • Tetanus

  • Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary

  • Typhoid fever

  • Typhus

  • Viral haemorrhagic fevers

  • Whooping cough

  • Yellow fever

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.