AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Regulations 1992    No. 81

Public Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations (Amendment)
The Australian Capital Territory Executive hereby makes the following Regulations under the Public Health Act 1928.
Dated 30 May 1992.
WAYNE BERRY
Minister
TERRY CONNOLLY
Minister
Principal Regulations
1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Public Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations.2
Interpretation
2.  Regulation 3 is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) the definitions of “Infectious Disease” and “Notifiable Disease” and substituting the following definitions:
“ ‘infectious disease’ means a disease specified in Schedule 3;
‘notifiable disease’ means a disease specified in Schedule 4;”.
Addition
3.  The Principal Regulations are amended by adding at the end the following Schedules:
	SCHEDULE 3	Subregulation 3 (1)
infectious diseases
	Botulism
	Campylobacteriosis
	Chlamydial disease (not elsewhere classified)
	Cholera
	Diphtheria
	Food Poisoning (not elsewhere classified)
	Haemophilus influenzae type b infection
	Hepatitis A
	Hepatitis B
	Hepatitis C
	Hepatitis (viral, not elsewhere classified)
	Legionellosis
	Leprosy
	Measles
	Meningococcal infection
	Mumps
	Pertussis
	Plague
	Poliomyelitis
	Rabies
	Rubella
	Salmonellosis (not elsewhere classified)
	Shigellosis
	Tuberculosis
	Typhoid and paratyphoid
	Viral haemorrhagic fever
	Yersiniosis

	SCHEDULE 4	Subregulation 3 (1)
notifiable diseases
	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
	Anthrax
	Arbovirus infection (not elsewhere classified)
	Brucellosis
	Dengue
	Hydatid infection
	Leptospirosis
	Listeriosis
	Malaria
	Psittacosis and other forms of Ornithosis
	Q fever
	Ross River virus infection
	Tetanus
	Yellow fever
	
NOTES
1.	Notified in the ACT Gazette on 9 June 1992.
2.	Regulations made on 12 December 1930 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see the tables in Note 1 to the Public Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations (as reprinted as at 31 October 1991).

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