Australian Capital Territory

Public Health (Notifiable Conditions) Determination 2017*

Disallowable Instrument DI2017-210

made under the

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

1	Name of Instrument
Public Health (Notifiable Conditions) Determination 2017.

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 1 October 2005 (instrument no 220 of 2005).

Meegan Fitzharris
Minister for Health and Wellbeing
17 August 2017

SCHEDULE 1

Column 1
Condition	Column 2
Transmissible	
Adverse Event Following Immunisation 		
Anthrax 		
Avian Influenza	Yes	
Barmah Forest virus infection		
Botulism 		
Brucellosis		
Campylobacteriosis 	Yes	
Chikungunya virus infection 		
Chlamydial infection	Yes	
Cholera 	Yes	
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (all forms, including classical and variant CJD)		
Cryptosporidiosis	Yes	
Dengue virus infection		
Diphtheria 	Yes	
Donovanosis	Yes	
Flavivirus infection – unspecified (including Zika virus infection)	Yes	
Food or water borne disease in 2 or more linked cases 	Yes	
Gastroenteritis involving 2 or more cases in an institution within 24 hours	Yes	
Gonococcal infection	Yes	
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) 		
Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) (invasive)	Yes	
Hendra virus infection  		
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) 	Yes	
Influenza laboratory-confirmed	Yes	
Japanese encephalitis		
Legionellosis 		
Leprosy	Yes	
Leptospirosis	Yes	
Listeriosis	Yes	
Lyssavirus – all forms 
•	Australian bat lyssavirus
•	Duvenhague virus
•	Rabies
•	European Bat 1 & 2
•	Lyssavirus unspecified	Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes	
Malaria		
Measles  	Yes	
Meningococcal infection (invasive) 	Yes	
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)	Yes	
Mumps	Yes	
Murray Valley encephalitis		
Paratyphoid	Yes	
Pertussis	Yes	
Plague 	Yes	
Pneumococcal disease (invasive)	Yes	
Poliomyelitis 	Yes	
Psittacosis (Ornithosis)	Yes	
Q fever		
Respiratory illness in 3 or more cases in an institution within 72 hours	Yes	
Ross River virus infection		
Rotavirus infection 	Yes	
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome	Yes	
Salmonellosis 	Yes	
Severe Acute Respiratory Sydnrome (SARS) coronavirus	Yes	
Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) 	Yes	
Shigellosis	Yes	
Smallpox 	Yes	
Syphilis (including congenital syphilis)	Yes	
Tetanus		
Tuberculosis	Yes	
Tularemia 		
Typhoid 	Yes	
Varicella	Yes	
Viral haemorrhagic fevers – all forms 
•	Lassa
•	Marburg
•	Ebola
•	Unspecified or otherwise unclassified	Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes	
West Nile virus /Kunjin virus infection		
Yellow fever		
Yersiniosis