CONSOLIDATED NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATION 954/96

Communicable Diseases Schedule Amendment Order
under the
Communicable Diseases Act
(O.C. 96‑289)

Under the authority of section 33 of the Communicable Diseases Act and the Subordinate Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act, the Lieutenant‑Governor in Council makes the following Order.

ORDER

Analysis

        1.   Short title

        2.   Schedule

        3.   Repeal

Short title

        1. This Order may be cited as the Communicable Diseases Schedule Amendment Order.

Schedule

        2. The Schedule to the Communicable Diseases Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Schedule

"Communicable disease" includes

Anthrax

Botulism

Brucellosis (undulant fever)

Chickenpox

Cholera

Diarrhoea of the new‑born (epidemic, including gastroenteritis and colitis with onset at ages under 4 weeks)

Diphtheria

Dysentery; amoebic, bacillary and unspecified believed infectious

Encephalitis, including viral and arthropod‑borne

Food‑poisoning, toxic, viral or bacterial (specified or unspecified) including conditions where food‑poisoning is suspected but not confirmed

Haemophilus influenza type b invasive disease

Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and other infectious hepatitis

Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Influenza A and influenza B (laboratory confirmed)

Leprosy

Legionellosis

Louse/Tick‑Borne Diseases

Malaria

Measles

Meningitis, viral and bacterial (specified and unspecified)

Meningococcal invasive disease

Mumps

Ornithosis

Pemphigus neonatorum (impetigo of the newborn)

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Plague

Poliomyelitis, paralytic

Psittacosis

Rabies (human)

Rubella, including congenital

Sexually transmitted diseases:

‑ chlamydia

‑ chancroid

‑ genital herpes

‑ gonorrhoea in all its forms, including ophthalmia neonatorum

‑ granuloma inguinale

‑ syphilis in all its forms

Smallpox

Streptococcal invasive disease

Tetanus

Trichinosis

Tuberculosis

(i) pulmonary

(ii) other and unspecified

Tularaemia

Typhoid and para‑typhoid fever

Yellow Fever, and

other diseases that may be declared by the minister by order to be a communicable disease.

157/94 s1

Repeal

        3. The Order re: Communicable Diseases Schedule Amendment, Newfoundland Regulation 157/94, is repealed.

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