The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

11.—(1) The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 1 (authorities administering Act), in subsection (4)(b)(2), before “Health Authorities” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authorities,”.

(3) In section 13 (regulations for control of certain diseases), in subsection (4)(a)(3), after “port health authorities,” there is inserted “Strategic Health Authorities,”.

(4) In section 37 (removal to hospital of person with notifiable disease)(4)—

(a) in subsection (1), for “of the Health Authority in whose area lies the area, or the greater part of the area, of the local authority” there is substituted “mentioned in subsection (1A) below”, and

(b) after subsection (1) there is inserted—

“(1A) The consent referred to in subsection (1) above is that of a Primary Care Trust or Health Authority—

(a) any part of whose area falls within that of the local authority, and

(b) which appears to the local authority to be an appropriate Primary Care Trust or Health Authority from whom to obtain consent.”.

(5) In section 41 (removal to hospital of inmate of common lodging-house with notifiable disease)(5), in subsection (1), for “Health Authority in whose area lies the area, or the greater part of the area, of the local authority” there is substituted “Primary Care Trust or Health Authority in whose area the common lodging-house is situated”.

(1)

1984 c. 22.

(2)

Paragraph (b) was substituted by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 108(2) and then amended by the 2000 Order, Schedule 1, paragraph 17(2).

(3)

Section 13(4)(a) was amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), Schedule 9, paragraph 13(2), the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 108(5), and by the 2000 Order, Schedule 1, paragraph 17(3).

(4)

Section 37(1) was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 26(2), Schedule 10, and the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 108(6).

(5)

Section 41(1) was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 26(3), Schedule 10, and the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 108(8).