National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008 (Cth)

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008

as amended

made under section 11 of the

National Health Security Act 2007

Compilation start date:                     24 June 2015

Includes amendments up to:           National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2015 (No. 1)

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 24 June 2015 (the compilation date).

This compilation was prepared on 24 June 2015.

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on ComLaw ( The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the series page on ComLaw for the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.

Modifications

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Self-repealing provisions

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Contents

1............ Name of Instrument....................................................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Definition...................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Establishment of the National Notifiable Disease List................................................... 1

Schedule 1—National Notifiable Disease List  2

Part 1—Definition  2

Part 2—Diseases  3

Division 2.1—Bloodborne diseases  3

Division 2.2—Gastrointestinal diseases  4

Division 2.3—Quarantinable diseases  5

Division 2.4—Sexually transmissible infections  6

Division 2.5—Vaccine preventable diseases  7

Division 2.6—Vectorborne diseases  8

Division 2.7—Zoonoses  9

Division 2.8—Other bacterial diseases  10

Division 2.9—Diseases under national surveillance performed by surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health and Ageing  11

Endnotes12

Endnote 1—About the endnotes  12

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key  13

Endnote 3—Legislation history  14

Endnote 4—Amendment history  15

1  Name of Instrument

This Instrument is the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008.

2  Commencement

This Instrument commences on the commencement of Part 2 of the National Health Security Act 2007.

3  Definition

In this Instrument:

Act means the National Health Security Act 2007.

4  Establishment of the National Notifiable Disease List

For subsection 11(1) of the Act, the National Notifiable Disease List, set out in Schedule 1, is established.

Schedule 1—National Notifiable Disease List

(section 4)

Part 1—Definition

In Part 2:

NEC, for a disease, means not elsewhere classified in the National Notifiable Disease List.

Part 2—Diseases

Division 2.1—Bloodborne diseases

Item	Disease
2.1.1	Hepatitis (NEC)
2.1.2	Hepatitis B (newly acquired)
2.1.3	Hepatitis B (unspecified)
2.1.4	Hepatitis C (newly acquired)
2.1.5	Hepatitis C (unspecified)
2.1.6	Hepatitis D

Division 2.2—Gastrointestinal diseases

Item	Disease
2.2.1	Botulism
2.2.2	Campylobacteriosis
2.2.3	Cryptosporidiosis
2.2.4	Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (otherwise known as HUS)
2.2.5	Hepatitis A
2.2.6	Hepatitis E
2.2.7	Listeriosis
2.2.8	Salmonellosis
2.2.9	Shiga Toxin‑producing E. Coli or Verotoxin‑producing E. Coli (otherwise known, respectively, as STEC or VTEC)
2.2.10	Shigellosis
2.2.11	Typhoid fever

Division 2.3—Quarantinable diseases

Item	Disease
2.3.1	Cholera
2.3.2	Highly pathogenic avian influenza (human)
2.3.3	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (otherwise known as MERS-CoV)
2.3.4	Plague
2.3.5	Rabies
2.3.6	Severe acute respiratory syndrome (otherwise known as SARS)
2.3.7	Smallpox
2.3.8	Viral haemorrhagic fever
2.3.9	Yellow fever

Division 2.4—Sexually transmissible infections

Item	Disease
2.4.1	Chlamydia
2.4.2	Donovanosis
2.4.3	Gonococcal infection
2.4.4	Syphilis—congenital
2.4.5	Syphilis—less than 2 years duration
2.4.6	Syphilis—more than 2 years duration or unspecified duration

Division 2.5—Vaccine preventable diseases

Item	Disease
2.5.1	Diphtheria
2.5.2	Haemophilus influenzae type b
2.5.3	Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
2.5.4	Measles
2.5.5	Mumps
2.5.6	Pertussis
2.5.7	Pneumococcal disease—invasive
2.5.8	Poliovirus infection
2.5.9	Rubella
2.5.10	Rubella—congenital
2.5.11	Tetanus
2.5.12	Varicella zoster infection—Chickenpox
2.5.13	Varicella zoster infection—Shingles
2.5.14	Varicella zoster infection—unspecified

Division 2.6—Vectorborne diseases

Item	Disease
2.6.1	Barmah Forest virus infection
2.6.2	Chikungunya virus infection
2.6.3	Dengue virus infection
2.6.4	Flavivirus infection (unspecified)
2.6.5	Japanese encephalitis virus infection
2.6.6	Kunjin virus infection
2.6.7	Malaria
2.6.8	Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection
2.6.9	Ross River virus infection

Note:       Vectorborne means transmitted by an insect or other organism.

Division 2.7—Zoonoses

Item	Disease
2.7.1	Anthrax
2.7.2	Australian bat lyssavirus infection
2.7.3	Brucellosis
2.7.4	Leptospirosis
2.7.5	Lyssavirus infection (NEC)
2.7.6	Ornithosis (otherwise known as Psittacosis)
2.7.7	Q fever
2.7.8	Tularaemia

Note:       The term Zoonoses refers to diseases which are communicable to humans from another animal species.

Division 2.8—Other bacterial diseases

Item	Disease
2.8.1	Legionellosis
2.8.2	Leprosy
2.8.3	Meningococcal disease—invasive
2.8.4	Tuberculosis

Division 2.9—Diseases under national surveillance performed by surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health and Ageing

Item	Disease
2.9.1	Creutzfeldt‑Jakob disease (otherwise known as CJD)
2.9.2	Variant Creutzfeldt‑Jakob disease (otherwise known as vCJD)
2.9.3	Human immunodeficiency virus (otherwise known as HIV)
2.9.4	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (otherwise known as AIDS)

Note:       The term ‘surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health and Ageing’ refers to the following non‑government bodies:

(a)    the Australian National Creutzfeldt‑Jakob Disease Registry; and

(b)    the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research.

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

The endnotes provide information about this compilation and the compiled law.

The following endnotes are included in every compilation:

Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Endnotes about misdescribed amendments and other matters are included in a compilation only as necessary.

Abbreviation key—Endnote 2

The abbreviation key sets out abbreviations that may be used in the endnotes.

Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4

Amending laws are annotated in the legislation history and amendment history.

The legislation history in endnote 3 provides information about each law that has amended (or will amend) the compiled law. The information includes commencement details for amending laws and details of any application, saving or transitional provisions that are not included in this compilation.

The amendment history in endnote 4 provides information about amendments at the provision (generally section or equivalent) level. It also includes information about any provision of the compiled law that has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law.

Misdescribed amendments

A misdescribed amendment is an amendment that does not accurately describe the amendment to be made. If, despite the misdescription, the amendment can be given effect as intended, the amendment is incorporated into the compiled law and the abbreviation “(md)” added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history.

If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the amendment is set out in the endnotes.

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

A = Act	orig = original
ad = added or inserted	par = paragraph(s)/subparagraph(s)
am = amended	/sub‑subparagraph(s)
amdt = amendment	pres = present
c = clause(s)	prev = previous
C[x] = Compilation No. x	(prev…) = previously
Ch = Chapter(s)	Pt = Part(s)
def = definition(s)	r = regulation(s)/rule(s)
Dict = Dictionary	Reg = Regulation/Regulations
disallowed = disallowed by Parliament	reloc = relocated
Div = Division(s)	renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired or ceases/ceased to have	rep = repealed
effect	rs = repealed and substituted
F = Federal Register of Legislative Instruments	s = section(s)/subsection(s)
gaz = gazette	Sch = Schedule(s)
LI = Legislative Instrument	Sdiv = Subdivision(s)
LIA = Legislative Instruments Act 2003	SLI = Select Legislative Instrument
(md) = misdescribed amendment	SR = Statutory Rules
mod = modified/modification	Sub‑Ch = Sub‑Chapter(s)
No. = Number(s)	SubPt = Subpart(s)
o = order(s)	underlining = whole or part not
Ord = Ordinance	commenced or to be commenced

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Name	FRLI registration	Commencement	Application, saving and transitional provisions
National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008	27 Mar 2008 (F2008L00800)	28 Mar 2008 (s 2)
National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment (Vectorborne Diseases) Instrument 2014	12 Jan 2015 (F2015L00030)	13 Jan 2015 (s 2)	—
National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2015 (No. 1)	23 June 2015 (F2015L00888)	24 June 2015 (s 2)	__

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Provision affected

How affected

Schedule 1 heading

Division 2.6 heading

Div 2.6..............................

rs F2015L00030

Sch 1, Div 2.3, Item 2.3.3.

Sch 1, Div 2.5, Item 2.5.8.     

ad F2015L00888

am F2015L00888