NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 79/23

Public Health Protection and Promotion Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Public Health Protection and Promotion Act

(Filed October 26, 2023)

Under the authority of section 60 of the Public Health Protection and Promotion Act I make the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, October 25, 2023.

Tom Osborne
Minister of Health and Community Services

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.7 Amdt.
Duties and powers of minister

        2.   S.8 Amdt.
Duty to report zoonotic disease

        3.   S.12.1 Added

              Core public health programs

NLR 42/19
as amended

        1. Subsection 7(1) of the Public Health Protection and Promotion Regulations is amended by deleting the words "he or she" and substituting the words "a health care professional or an environmental health officer".

 

        2. Section 8 of the regulations is amended by deleting the words "his or her" wherever they appear and substituting the words "the Chief Veterinary Officer's".

 

        3. The regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 12 the following:

Core public health programs

   12.1 The following programs are core public health programs:

             (a)  communicable disease prevention and control;

             (b)  population health assessment, surveillance and epidemiology;

             (c)  growth and development in the early years;

             (d)  environmental public health;

             (e)  health promotion and non-communicable diseases and injury prevention; and

             (f)  health emergency management.

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