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(1) This Order may be cited as the Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 29th February 2020.
(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.
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(1) Schedule 1 to the Act shall be amended by the insertion of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
(2) Accordingly the notifiable diseases to which the Act applies from the commencement of this Order are those set out in the Schedule which shall be substituted for Schedule 1 to the Act.
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The Public Health Notifiable Diseases Order (Northern Ireland) 1990 is revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 28 February 2020
(L.S.)Nigel McMahon
A senior officer of the Department of Health

SCHEDULE
Article 2(2)


 Acute encephalitis/meningitis: bacterial
 Acute encephalitis/meningitis: viral
 Anthrax
 Chickenpox
 Cholera
 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
 Diphtheria
 Dysentery
 Food Poisoning
 Gastro-enteritis (persons under 2 years of age only)
 Hepatitis A
 Hepatitis B
 Hepatitis unspecified: viral
 Legionnaire’s Disease
 Leptospirosis
 Malaria
 Measles
 Meningococcal septicaemia
 Mumps
 Paratyphoid fever
 Plague
 Poliomyelitis: acute
 Rabies
 Relapsing fever
 Rubella
 Scarlet fever
 Smallpox
 Tetanus
 Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary
 Typhoid fever
 Typhus
 Viral haemorrhagic fevers
 Whooping cough
 Yellow fever
