http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/240/madeThe Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001Immigration and nationalityDetention of immigrantsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2012-09-12IMMIGRATION This Order specifies certain diseases for the purpose of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. 2001 No. 240 IMMIGRATION The Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001 Made 28th January 2001 Laid before Parliament 6th February 2001 Coming into force 2nd April 2001 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 1999, 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
28th January 2001 SCHEDULE DISEASES ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF OTHERS Article 2

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.

1999 c. 33.