2001 No. 240
IMMIGRATION

The Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 19991, hereby makes the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001.

2.

The diseases listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified for the purposes of paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (diseases which might endanger the health of others).

Barbara Roche
Minister of State

Home Office

SCHEDULEDISEASES ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF OTHERS

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  • Acute encephalitis

  • Acute poliomyelitis

  • Amoebic dysentry

  • Anthrax

  • Bacillary dysentry

  • Cholera

  • Diphtheria

  • Food poisoning

  • Leprosy

  • Leptospirosis

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • Meningitis

  • Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)

  • Mumps

  • Ophthalmia neonatorum

  • Parathyphoid fever

  • Plague

  • Rabies

  • Relapsing fever

  • Rubella

  • Salmonella infections

  • Scarlet fever

  • Smallpox

  • Staphylococcal infections likely to cause food poisoning

  • Tetanus

  • Tuberculosis

  • Typhoid fever

  • Typhus

  • Viral haemorrhagic fever

  • Viral hepatitis

  • Whooping cough

  • Yellow fever

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies certain diseases for the purpose of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Paragraph 3 allows a detainee custody officer at a detention centre to require a detained person to submit to a medical examination at the centre so long as an authorisation is in force (given by the manager of the centre) and there are reasonable grounds for believing that the individual is suffering from a disease which the Secretary of State considers might endanger the health of others there.