Public Health Amendment (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) Order 2013 (NSW)

New South Wales

Public Health Amendment (Middle East

Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) Order

2013

under the

Public Health Act 2010

I, the Minister for Health, in pursuance of sections 51 (2) and 81 of the Public Health Act 2010,
make the following Order.

Dated, this 19th day of September 2013.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to amend the Public Health Act 2010 to add Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus to:

(a)

the list of medical conditions in Schedule 1 to that Act:

(i)	that must be notified by medical practitioners and pathology laboratories to the Director-General of the Ministry of Health, and
(ii)	for which the Director-General of the Ministry of Health may direct a person to undergo medical examination, and
(iii)	for which an authorised medical practitioner may make a public health order, and

(b)

the list of notifiable diseases in Schedule 2 to that Act:

(i)	that must be notified by health practitioners providing care in hospitals to the chief executive officer of the hospital concerned, and
(ii)	that must be notified by the chief executive officer of a hospital to the Director-General of the Ministry of Health.

This Order is made under sections 51 (2) and 81 of the Public Health Act 2010.

Public Health Amendment (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) Order 2013 [NSW]

Public Health Amendment (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Coronavirus) Order 2013

under the

Public Health Act 2010

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Public Health Amendment (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus) Order 2013.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Public Health Act 2010 No 127

(1) Schedule 1 Scheduled medical conditions

Insert the following in alphabetical order in Categories 2, 3 and 4:

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

(2)	Schedule 2 Notifiable diseases
Insert the following in alphabetical order:

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus