Public Health Act 1991 Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions) Regulation 2000 (2000-763) [GG No 170 of 29.12.2000, p 13951] (NSW)

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Public Health Amendment (Scheduled New South Wales

Medical Conditions) Regulation 2000

under the

Public Health Act 1991

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Public Health Act 1991.

CRAIG KNOWLES, M.P.,

Minister for Health

Explanatory note

The Public Health Act 1991 imposes certain obligations on persons suffering from prescribed medical conditions and on medical or laboratory staff who treat or test those persons. In the case of a condition prescribed by the Act as a Category 3 medical condition, the person suffering from it is required to take reasonable steps to prevent its contagion, and a testing laboratory is required to notify any detected instance of it to the Director-General of the Department of Health. In the case of a condition prescribed as a notifiable disease, hospital administrators are obliged to report any hospitalised case to the Director-General.

The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to add six new conditions to the list of Category 3 medical conditions, and to remove “mycobacterial infections” from that list, and
(b)	to add the condition known as Lyssavirus to the list of notifiable diseases.

This Regulation is made under section 80 of the Act.

Published in Gazette No 170 of 29 December 2000, page 13951	Page 1
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Clause 1	Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions) Regulation 2000

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical
Conditions) Regulation 2000

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical
Conditions) Regulation 2000.

2 Amendment of Public Health Regulation 1991

The Public Health Regulation 1991 is amended as set out in

Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions) Regulation

2000

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]     Clause 87A Medical conditions notifiable by laboratories

Insert the following in alphabetical order:
Anthrax
Invasive pneumococcal infection
Influenza
Lyssavirus
Psittacosis
Tuberculosis

[2]     Clause 87A (2)

Insert at the end of clause 87A:

(2) Omit the following from Category 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act:
Mycobacterial infections

[3]     Clause 87B

Insert after clause 87A:

87B Notifiable diseases

Insert the following in alphabetical order in Schedule 3 to the
Act:

Lyssavirus

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