
1 
This Order may be cited as the Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001.
2 
The diseases listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified for the purposes of paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (diseases which might endanger the health of others).
Barbara Roche
Minister of State
Home Office
28th January 2001
SCHEDULE
Article 2


 Acute encephalitis
 Acute poliomyelitis
 Amoebic dysentry
 Anthrax
 Bacillary dysentry
 Cholera
 Diphtheria
 Food poisoning
 Leprosy
 Leptospirosis
 Malaria
 Measles
 Meningitis
 Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)
 Mumps
 Ophthalmia neonatorum
 Parathyphoid fever
 Plague
 Rabies
 Relapsing fever
 Rubella
 Salmonella infections
 Scarlet fever
 Smallpox
 Staphylococcal infections likely to cause food poisoning
 Tetanus
 Tuberculosis
 Typhoid fever
 Typhus
 Viral haemorrhagic fever
 Viral hepatitis
 Whooping cough
 Yellow fever
