Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions and Notifiable Diseases) Regulation 2004 (NSW)

2004 No 187

New South Wales

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled

Medical Conditions and Notifiable

Diseases) Regulation 2004

under the

Public Health Act 1991

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

MORRIS IEMMA, M.P.,

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Public Health Act 1991:

(a)

to include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and smallpox:

(i)	in the list of medical conditions in Schedule 1 to the Act that must be notified by medical practitioners and laboratories to the Director-General of the Department of Health (the Director-General), and
(ii)	in the list of notifiable diseases in Schedule 3 to that Act that must be notified by the chief executive officers of hospitals to the Director- General, and

(b)

to include tularaemia in the list of medical conditions in Schedule 1 to that Act that must be notified by laboratories to the Director-General.

This Regulation is made under the Public Health Act 1991, including section 80 (1) and

(3) and section 82 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 74 of 16 April 2004, page 2106	Page 1
2004 No 187	Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions and Notifiable
Clause 1	Diseases) Regulation 2004

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical

Conditions and Notifiable Diseases) Regulation 2004

under the

Public Health Act 1991

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health Amendment (Scheduled
Medical Conditions and Notifiable Diseases) Regulation 2004.

2 Amendment of Public Health Act 1991 No 10

The Public Health Act 1991 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions and Notifiable	2004 No 187
Diseases) Regulation 2004
Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Schedule 1 Scheduled medical conditions

Insert the following in alphabetical order in Category 2:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-

Jakob disease (vCJD)

Smallpox

[2]      Schedule 1, Category 3

Insert the following in alphabetical order:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-

Jakob disease (vCJD)

Smallpox
Tularaemia

[3]      Schedule 3 Notifiable diseases

Insert the following in alphabetical order:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-

Jakob disease (vCJD)

Smallpox

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