The Public Health (Notifiable Diseases) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made: 6th June 2022

Coming into operation: 7th June 2022

The Department of Health[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967[^f00002], makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Public Health (Notifiable Diseases) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 7th June 2022.

• (2) In this Order “the Act” means the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Act

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• (1) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be amended by the insertion of Monkeypox.

• (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.

Revocation

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The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2021[^f00003] is revoked.

SCHEDULE — Notifiable Diseases

• 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 C

• Hepatitis unspecified: viral

• Legionnaire’s Disease

• Leptospirosis

• Malaria

• Measles

• Meningococcal septicaemia

• Monkeypox

• 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

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 6th June 2022

Dr Naresh Chada — A senior officer of the Department of Health

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.)

[^f00003]: S.R. 2021 No. 160