National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 20081
National Health Security Act 2007
I, NICOLA ROXON, Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Instrument under section 11 of the National Health Security Act 2007.
Dated 17 March 2008
NICOLA ROXON
Minister for Health and Ageing
1 Name of Instrument
This Instrument is the National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Instrument 2008.
2 Commencement
This Instrument commences on the commencement of Part 2 of the National Health Security Act 2007.
3 Definition
In this Instrument:
Act means the National Health Security Act 2007.
4 Establishment of the National Notifiable Disease List
For subsection 11 (1) of the Act, the National Notifiable Disease List, set out in Schedule 1, is established.
Schedule 1 National Notifiable Disease List
(section 4)
Part 1 Definition
In Part 2:
NEC, for a disease, means not elsewhere classified in the National Notifiable Disease List.
Part 2 Diseases
Division 2.1 Bloodborne diseases
Item
Disease
2.1.1
Hepatitis (NEC)
2.1.2
Hepatitis B (newly acquired)
2.1.3
Hepatitis B (unspecified)
2.1.4
Hepatitis C (newly acquired)
2.1.5
Hepatitis C (unspecified)
2.1.6
Hepatitis D
Division 2.2 Gastrointestinal diseases
Item
Disease
2.2.1
Botulism
2.2.2
Campylobacteriosis
2.2.3
Cryptosporidiosis
2.2.4
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (otherwise known as HUS)
2.2.5
Hepatitis A
2.2.6
Hepatitis E
2.2.7
Listeriosis
2.2.8
Salmonellosis
2.2.9
Shiga Toxin‑producing E. Coli or Verotoxin‑producing E. Coli (otherwise known, respectively, as STEC or VTEC)
2.2.10
Shigellosis
2.2.11
Typhoid fever
Division 2.3 Quarantinable diseases
Item
Disease
2.3.1
Cholera
2.3.2
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (human)
2.3.3
Plague
2.3.4
Rabies
2.3.5
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (otherwise known as SARS)
2.3.6
Smallpox
2.3.7
Viral haemorrhagic fever
2.3.8
Yellow fever
Division 2.4 Sexually transmissible infections
Item
Disease
2.4.1
Chlamydia
2.4.2
Donovanosis
2.4.3
Gonococcal infection
2.4.4
Syphilis — congenital
2.4.5
Syphilis — less than 2 years duration
2.4.6
Syphilis — more than 2 years duration or unspecified duration
Division 2.5 Vaccine preventable diseases
Item
Disease
2.5.1
Diphtheria
2.5.2
Haemophilus influenzae type b
2.5.3
Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
2.5.4
Measles
2.5.5
Mumps
2.5.6
Pertussis
2.5.7
Pneumococcal disease — invasive
2.5.8
Poliomyelitis
2.5.9
Rubella
2.5.10
Rubella — congenital
2.5.11
Tetanus
2.5.12
Varicella zoster infection — Chickenpox
2.5.13
Varicella zoster infection — Shingles
2.5.14
Varicella zoster infection — unspecified
Division 2.6 Vectorborne diseases
Item
Disease
2.6.1
Arbovirus infection (NEC)
2.6.2
Barmah Forest virus infection
2.6.3
Dengue virus infection
2.6.4
Japanese encephalitis virus infection
2.6.5
Kunjin virus infection
2.6.6
Malaria
2.6.7
Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection
2.6.8
Ross River virus infection
Note Vectorborne means transmitted by an insect or other organism.
Division 2.7 Zoonoses
Item
Disease
2.7.1
Anthrax
2.7.2
Australian bat lyssavirus infection
2.7.3
Brucellosis
2.7.4
Leptospirosis
2.7.5
Lyssavirus infection (NEC)
2.7.6
Ornithosis (otherwise known as Psittacosis)
2.7.7
Q fever
2.7.8
Tularaemia
Note The term Zoonoses refers to diseases which are communicable to humans from another animal species.
Division 2.8 Other bacterial diseases
Item
Disease
2.8.1
Legionellosis
2.8.2
Leprosy
2.8.3
Meningococcal disease — invasive
2.8.4
Tuberculosis
Division 2.9 Diseases under national surveillance performed by surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health and Ageing
Item
Disease
2.9.1
Creutzfeldt‑Jakob disease (otherwise known as CJD)
2.9.2
Variant Creutzfeldt‑Jakob disease (otherwise known as vCJD)
2.9.3
Human immunodeficiency virus (otherwise known as HIV)
2.9.4
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (otherwise known as AIDS)
Note The term ‘surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health and Ageing’ refers to the following non‑government bodies:
(a) the Australian National Creutzfeldt‑Jakob Disease Registry; and
(b) the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research.
Note
1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.
