Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Regulations 2022 (Vic)

Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Regulations 2022

S.R. No. 14/2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provisions

3Commencement

4Principal Regulations

5Prescribed Consultative Council

6Regulation 105 substituted

7Schedule 4—Pathology services—notifiable conditions and notification details

8Schedule 7—Minimum period of exclusion from primary schools, education and care service premises and children's services centres for infectious diseases cases and contacts

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Endnotes

STATUTORY RULES 2022

S.R. No. 14/2022

Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008

Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Regulations 2022

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 15 February 2022

Responsible Minister:

MARTIN FOLEY
Minister for Health

ALEXANDRA DEBELJAKOVIC

Clerk of the Executive Council

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019—

(a)to prescribe additional notifiable conditions; and

(b)to clarify the exclusion time from primary schools, education and care service premises or children's services centres for viral gastroenteritis outbreaks; and

(c)to make minor and consequential amendments.

2Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 232, 233 and 238 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 22 February 2022.

4Principal Regulations

In these Regulations, the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019[1] are called the Principal Regulations.

5Prescribed Consultative Council

In regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations, before "Perioperative" insert "Victorian".

6Regulation 105 substituted

For regulation 105 of the Principal Regulations substitute—

"105   Definition of early childhood service

For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of early childhood service in section 3(1) of the Act, an occasional care service (within the meaning of regulation 5(1) of the Children's Services Regulations 2020), which does not include an outside school hours care service or a school holiday care service or any part of such a service, is a prescribed class.".

7Schedule 4—Pathology services—notifiable conditions and notification details

In Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations, after item 51 of Part 2 insert—

"52Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

53Invasive Group A Streptococcal (iGAS) Disease".

8Schedule 7—Minimum period of exclusion from primary schools, education and care service premises and children's services centres for infectious diseases cases and contacts

In the Table in Schedule 7 to the Principal Regulations, for all words and expressions in column 3 of number 4 substitute "In an outbreak of gastroenteritis, exclude until there has not been vomiting or a loose bowel motion for 48 hours and, for all other diarrhoeal illness, exclude until there has not been vomiting or a loose bowel motion for 24 hours".

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Endnotes

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 135/2019 as amended by S.R. Nos 135/2019, 4/2020, 5/2020, 20/2020, 76/2020, 79/2020, 86/2020, 93/2020, 99/2020, 1/2021, 15/2021, 43/2021, 129/2021, 156/2021 and 175/2021.