Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This order may be cited as the Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 8^thJuly 2021.

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

Amendment to Schedule 1 to the Act

2.—(1) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be amended by the insertion of Hepatitis C.

(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

3.  The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 (No. 23)( 3) is revoked.

Article 2(2)

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

• 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.