National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2022 (Cth)

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2022

I, Dr Sonya Bennett, Acting Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, make the following Instrument.

Dated               26 May 2022              

Dr Sonya Bennett

Acting Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 2

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 2

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 2

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 2

Schedule 1—Amendments  3

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2018   3

1  Name

This instrument is the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2022.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 12(1) of the National Health Security Act 2007.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2018

1  Subsection 6(1) (after table item 38)

Insert:

38A Monkeypox virus infection

2  Section 6 (note)

Omit “Note”, substitute “Note 1”.

3  At the end of section 6

Add:

Note 2: Monkeypox virus infection ceases to be on the National Notifiable Disease List at the end of the period of 6 months after the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2022 took effect due to subsection 12(4) of the National Health Security Act 2007.