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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 240

IMMIGRATION

The Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001

  Made 28th January 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 6th February 2001 
  Coming into force 2nd April 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999[1], hereby makes the following Order:

     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


DISEASES ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF OTHERS


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


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order specifies certain diseases for the purpose of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Paragraph 3 allows a detainee custody officer at a detention centre to require a detained person to submit to a medical examination at the centre so long as an authorisation is in force (given by the manager of the centre) and there are reasonable grounds for believing that the individual is suffering from a disease which the Secretary of State considers might endanger the health of others there.

Notes:

 [1] 1999 c. 33.back


ISBN 0 11 019218 4


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 13 February 2001

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