Download 1962 No 76 Health Amendment

1962, No. 76
Health Amendment
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ANALYSIS
Title
1. Short Title
2. Notice of cases of notifiable
disease
3. Restrictions applying while ship
liable to quarantine
Schedule
1962, No. 76
An Act to amend the Health Act 1956
[6 December 1962
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand
in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
1. Short Title-This Act may be cited as the Health
Amendment Act 1962, and shall be read together with and
deemed part of the Health Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to
as the principal Act).
2. Notice of cases of notifiable disease- ( 1) Section 74 of
the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection (1) the words "to the local authority
of the district and to the Medical Officer of Health", and substituting the words "to the Medical Officer of Health, and,
except where the disease is specified in Section B of Part I
of the First Schedule to this Act, to the local authority of
the district".
(2) The principal Act is hereby further amended by
repealing the First Schedule, and substituting the First
Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act.
(3) The Infectious Diseases Order 1958 and the Infectious
Diseases Order 1959 are hereby consequentially revoked.
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3. Restrictions applying while ship liable to quarantineSection 99 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding
to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the words "or an Inspector
appointed under section 6 of the Department of Agriculture
Act 1953".
Section 2
SCHEDULE
NEW FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE HEALTH ACT 1956
Section 2
"FIRST SCHEDULE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
PART I-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Section A-Infectious Diseases Notifiable to Medical Officer of Health
and Local Authority
Pneumonic influenza.
Anthrax.
Cerebro-spinal fever
(cerebro- Poliomyelitis.
Relapsing fever.
spinal meningitis).
Salmonella infections.
Cholera.
Septicaemic influenza.
Cysticercosis.
Smallpox (variola, including varioDiphtheria.
loid and alastrim).
Dysentery (amoebic and bacillary).
Taeniasis.
Encephalitis lethargica.
Enteric fever (typhoid fever, para- Trachoma (granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, granutyphoid fever).
lar eyelids).
Fulminant influenza.
Typhus.
Infective hepatitis.
Leptospiral infections.
Undulant fever.
Ornithosis (psittacosis).
Yellow fever.
Plague (bubonic or pneumonic).
Section B-lnfectious Diseases Notifiable to Medical Officer of Hea,lth
Leprosy.
Puerperal infection involving any
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
form of sepsis, either generalised
Pemphigus neonatorum, impetigo,
or local, in or arising from the
or pustular lesions of the skin of
female genital tract within 14
the newborn infant.
days of childbirth or abortion.
Staphylococcal pneumonia or septicaemia of the newborn infant.
PART II---oTIIER INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Chickenpox (varicella) .
Erysipelas.
Gonorrhoea.
Impetigo contagiosa.
Influenza.
Measles (morbilli) , and German
measles (rubella).
Mumps (epidemic parotitis).
Pediculosis.
Pneumonia (acute primary).
Ringworm of the scalp (tinea
tonsurans) .
Scabies (itch).
Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet fever.
Syphilis, and soft chancre.
Whooping cough (pertussis)."
This Act is administered in the Department of Health.