Australian Capital Territory

Public Health Notifiable Conditions Determination 2005

Disallowable Instrument DI 2005-220

made under the

Public Health Act 1997, s 100 (Notifiable Conditions – Ministerial determination)

1	Name of Instrument
This instrument is the Public Health Notifiable Conditions Determination 2005.

2	Commencement
This instrument commences the day after it is notified.

3	Determination
The diseases listed in column 1 of schedule 1 are notifiable conditions.  The diseases listed in column 1 of schedule 1 with the word “yes” opposite them in column 2 are transmissible notifiable conditions.

4	Revocation
I revoke the Determination of Notifiable Conditions dated 30 September 1999 (instrument no 240 of 1999).

Simon Corbell
Minister for Health

28 September 2005

SCHEDULE 1

Column 1
Condition	Column 2
Transmissible	
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)		
Anthrax 		
Arbovirus infections
•	Barmah Forest virus
•	Dengue virus
•	Japanese encephalitis virus
•	Kunjin virus
•	Murray Valley encephalitis virus (notified as Australian arbo-encephalitis in Victoria)
•	Ross River virus
•	Flavivirus infection – unspecified or not otherwise classified

Avian Influenza	Yes	
Botulism 		
Brucellosis		
Campylobacteriosis 	Yes	
Chlamydia trachomatis	Yes	
Cholera 	Yes	
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (all forms, including classical and variant CJD)		
Cryptosporidiosis	Yes	
Diphtheria 	Yes	
Donovanosis	Yes	
Equine morbillivirus 		
Food poisoning (not elsewhere specified) 	Yes	
Gastrointestinal illness cluster 	Yes	
Giardiasis	Yes	
Gonococcal infection	Yes	
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) 		
Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) (invasive only)	Yes	
Hepatitis A 	Yes	
Hepatitis B	Yes	
Hepatitis C	Yes	
Hepatitis D	Yes	
Hepatitis E	Yes	
Hepatitis – Infectious, not otherwise specified 	Yes	
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection	Yes	
Influenza laboratory-confirmed	Yes	
Legionellosis 		
Leprosy (Hansen's disease)	Yes	
Leptospirosis	Yes	
Listeriosis	Yes	
Lyssavirus
•	Australian bat lyssavirus
•	Duvenhague virus
•	Rabies
•	European Bat 1 & 2
•	Lyssavirus unspecified	Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes	
Malaria		
Measles  	Yes	
Meningococcal disease (invasive) 	Yes	
Mumps	Yes	
Paratyphoid	Yes	
Pertussis	Yes	
Plague 	Yes	
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)	Yes	
Poliomyelitis – wild type and vaccine-associated 	Yes	
Psittacosis (Ornithosis)	Yes	
Q fever		
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome	Yes	
SARS 	Yes	
Salmonellosis 	Yes	
Shigellosis	Yes	
Shiga Toxin-producing  and Vero Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC) 	Yes	
Smallpox 	Yes	
Syphilis	Yes	
Tetanus		
Tuberculosis	Yes	
Tularemia 		
Typhoid 	Yes	
Varicella	Yes	
Viral haemorrhagic fevers (quarantinable) 
•	Lassa
•	Marburg
•	Ebola
•	Unspecified or otherwise unclassified	Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes	
Yellow fever		
Yersiniosis