National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2015   (No. 1)

 

I, Sussan Ley, Minister for Health, make the following instrument under subsection 11(3) of the National Health Security Act 2007.

 

Dated:                    18 June 2015

Sussan Ley

Minister for Health

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name of instrument................................1

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

3 Authority.......................................1

4 Schedule(s)......................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008 2

 

1  Name of instrument

  This instrument is the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2015 (No. 1).

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 11(3) of the National Health Security Act 2007.

4  Schedule(s)

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.    

 

Schedule 1Amendments

 

National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008

 

1    Division 2.3 of Schedule 1

Repeal the Division, substitute:

Division 2.3Quarantinable 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

 

 

 

2    Division 2.5 of Schedule 1

Omit:

Poliomyelitis

 

Insert:

Poliovirus infection