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Ordinance To The Law On Measures Against Infectious And Other Communicable Diseases

Original Language Title: Bekendtgørelse af lov om foranstaltninger mod smitsomme og andre overførbare sygdomme

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Objective and region

Chapter 2 Epidemics missions

Chapter 3 Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases here in the country

Chapter 4 Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases in the country

Chapter 5 Various provisions

Chapter 6 Penalty provisions, etc.

Chapter 7 Entry into force and so on.

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Publication of the Act of Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases

In this way, the act of measures against infectious and other communicable diseases shall be announced, cf. Law Order no. 640 of 14. June, 2007, with the changes that result from law no. 1172 by 10. December 2008.

Chapter 1

Objective and region

§ 1. In order to prevent,

1) that the communicable and other communicable diseases referred to in section 2 are disseminated in this country, and

2) contamination from these diseases into the country or from here to other countries ;

the epidemics referred to in section 3 may be implemented in accordance with Chapters 3 and 4.

§ 2. The Act includes the general dangerous diseases and the other infectious diseases and other communicable diseases recorded in list A and B as annexes to the law.

Paragraph 2. The health and prevention minister may make changes to the health and prevention settings of the health services referred to in paragraph 1. 1 lists and drawing up new lists.

Paragraph 3. Gender illnesses are not covered by the law.

Chapter 2

Epidemics missions

§ 3. For each region, an epidemiological commission comprised of a police director appointed by the Danish National Police Department, appointed by the Board of Health, a veterinarian appointed by the Board of Health, a representative of the local customs and tax administration, designated by the local customs and tax administration, a representative of the regional emergency number designated by the region, a representative of the Emergency Management Regional Emergency Center of the Contingency Management Board, as well as three of the region of the region, Members. The commissioner is chairman of the commission.

Paragraph 2. The election of the regional members will have an impact on the regional parliamentary term.

Paragraph 3. The Board of Health shall, where necessary, guide the epidemics. In order to advise and assist Health Services, a permanent representative of the State Police, Ministry of Transport, Emergency Management, Emergency Management Board, Defence Command, FDA, the FDA, the Danish Agency for Health and Food Safety, the Danish Agency for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Public Health and Food Safety, Statens ; Serum Institut, Danske Regions, KL (Municipalities Landing Association), Falck's Rescue Corps and Post-Denmark.

§ 4. The local police, port, pilo-, air, environmental, hospital, medical, medical and emergency services shall be obliged to assist the epidemics mission in the performance of its duties, this law.

Paragraph 2. Epidemics may decide that, in accordance with Chapter 3 and 4, some of the measures referred to in Chapters 3 and 4 may be initiated by the individual members of the Commission or by the members of the Commission attached doctors.

Paragraph 3. The Minister for Health and Prevention may lay down rules on medical assistance to the epidemics mission.

Chapter 3

Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases here in the country

§ 5. The pandemic Commission may invite any person suffering from an allied dangerous disease or who may be infected with such a person shall be subject to examination by a doctor, and shall, if necessary, be subject to the observation of a hospital hospital.

Paragraph 2. In the case of the police, the person concerned may not be prepared for examination by the police, just as the person concerned, if necessary by the police, is subject to the observation of a hospital for the presence of police.

§ 6. The epidemic commission may provide that anyone who suffers from an alintenable or dangerous disease or who may be infected with such a contract shall be isolated and, if necessary, hospisements to hospital.

Paragraph 2. The ban on supply cannot be isolated, the isolation of the person concerned by forced admission to the hospital's help.

Paragraph 3. Provided that the propagation of an alment dangerous disease cannot be prevented by isolation in accordance with paragraph 1. 1, the Minister for Health and Prevention, on the recommendation of the Board of Health, shall provide for compulsory treatment to be carried out.

§ 7. The epidemics mission may provide that an area in which an alintendent dangerous disease occurs or where the presence of a biological agent is suspected, so that intercourse with the environment is prevented as necessary, as is the Commission ; prohibit the holding of public arrangements and similar bodies. in the area.

Paragraph 2. Measures taken pursuant to paragraph 1. 1 shall be repealed as soon as possible.

§ 8. In order to prevent the spread of an alment dangerous disease, the Minister for Health and Prevention may, on the recommendation of the Board of Health, make provision for forced vaccination within a defined area or by a more detailed approach ; delimited persons.

§ 9. When it is believed that a fatality is due to an alment dangerous disease, the epidemics post-negotiation with the Board of Health may claim that an autopsy should be carried out.

§ 10. The Ministry of Health and Prevention may, on the recommendation of the Health Services, determine that the measures which can only be implemented against general or dangerous diseases, cf. Section 5 (9) may also be carried out against other communicable diseases and other communicable diseases when they occur in a malignant manner or with widespread propagation or when other conditions involve a particularly high risk of infection.

§ 11. The epidemic Commission may carry out the studies of bacteriological or similar species which are necessary to establish with certainty the nature, origin and dissemination of a disease.

Paragraph 2. Where there is a risk of infection spreading through the manufacture and distribution of foodstuffs, the Commission may take measures in order to terminate the infection, if necessary by imposing a full or partial closure of the disease ; the undertaking concerned or by prohibiting the availability of an infection-bearing access to the establishment.

Paragraph 3. The Commission may prohibit the use of public transport by persons suffering from one of this law in the case of disease.

§ 12. The epidemics mission may provide for the cleaning of the cleaning of persons suspected of contaminated with the substance of a contagious substance or a biological agent. The Commission may also impose the disinfection of movable, immovable property and means of transport and so on.

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Paragraph 3. The Board of Health shall lay down detailed rules on the cleaning of persons suspected of contaminated with the substance of an infectious agent or biological agent.

Paragraph 4. In addition, after negotiation with the Health Service, other measures of limited nature and scope can also be taken to prevent the spread of contamination.

Chapter 4

Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases in the country

§ 13. In the event of a ship ' s arrival, the driver and a possible shipping physician shall communicate to the epidemic or to the operator of the Commission, information on the state of health on board both during the voyage and at the arrival time. The arrival of an aircraft shall be the responsibility of the aircraft or his authorized representative by the aircraft.

Paragraph 2. The Minister for Health and Prevention shall lay down detailed rules on the information to be communicated to it pursuant to paragraph 1. 1, as well as on the form of the message.

§ 14. The Minister for Health and Prevention may determine the extent to which a ship or aircraft may not be cooperated with persons in the country before the epidemics mission or the Commission authorised to do so, have been granted permission to consent.

Paragraph 2. The police shall provide assistance, in order to ensure compliance with the provisions on the need to ensure that a ship or aircraft may not be cooperated with persons in the country.

§ 15. The Minister for Health and Prevention may decide that sections 13 and 14 may be departed from ships and aircraft arriving from specified countries or in regular service speed, and for boats, fishing boats and other smaller vessels.

Paragraph 2. The Minister for Health and Prevention determines which relief to apply to organ vessels and military aircraft.

Paragraph 3. The Minister for Health and Prevention may derogate from the provisions of section 13-19 of the Treaty.

§ 16. The pandemic Commission may claim that any person arriving in this country should be subject to examination by a doctor, and that they should, if necessary, be subject to the observation of a hospital.

Paragraph 2. In the case of the police, the person concerned may not be prepared for examination by the police, just as the person concerned, if necessary by the police, is subject to the observation of a hospital for the presence of police.

§ 17. By the way, anyone arriving in this country is subject to the rules in section 6 to 12.

§ 18. The Minister for Health and Prevention shall lay down rules on the measures to be taken against goods, baggage and mail in order to prevent the introduction and distribution of a disease covered by this Act.

Paragraph 2. The minister for health and prevention lays down rules on the measures to be taken to prevent rats or other rodents and vectors infecting a disease covered by this Act, in or out of the country. The Minister for Health and Prevention may, in particular, establish that a State authority which the epidemics mission pursuant to Article 4 may be required to assist with the task may allow specific practical measures to be carried out by an authorized person ; a rat-fighter which may also carry out the task insofar as it relates to vectors.

§ 19. Upon request, the epidemiological commission of the carrier shall issue an unpaid certificate of certificate (quarantine certificate) :

1) the measures taken by vessels, aircraft, railway vehicles and vehicles, subject to this law ;

2) the part of the means of transport has been met,

3) the procedure used and

4) the reason for the measures to be implemented.

Paragraph 2. In the case of aircraft, the certificate of application shall be issued for the aeroplanes for the completion of the general declaration of general declaration (General Declaration).

Paragraph 3. Upon request, the epidemiological commission shall issue an unpaid certificate of charge :

1) every traveller on the date of his arrival and departure and the measures that he and his luggage have undergone, and

2) the consignor, the consignee and the carriage operator or their representatives on the measures taken by the goods have been subject to the goods.

Chapter 5

Various provisions

20. In accordance with sections 5, 6, 7, 12 and 16, which are in the nature of detention, and on request for the termination of such claims, the epidemics shall give the relevant guidance to the courts in accordance with the rules of the law of the administration of justice ; Chapter 43 a.

§ 21. Anyone who is aware of the fact that a person in his or custody suffers from an alment dangerous disease must, as a matter of urgency, be addressed to a doctor or a police officer if the notification of the disease has not already been reported. The notification shall, without undue delay, be forwarded to the ever-epidemic epidemiological commission.

§ 22. The Board of Health may lay down rules on the circumstances of schools and institutions in the case of contagious and other communicable diseases. Such rules may be extended to include others other than those mentioned in section 2 and other communicable diseases which may present a particular risk to the dissemination of schools and institutions.

-23. The health and prevention minister may lay down rules on imports, negotiation, extradition, processing, storage and export of a contagious or other communicable disease, which is from the Board of Health and Health, subject to this law.

§ 24. The Ministry of Health and Prevention may, in the name of Section 1, lay down detailed rules on the operation and export of bodies, as well as the treatment and transport of these products in this country.

§ 25. The Board of Health may provide for rules on the persons or groups of persons to be tuberculosis-examined.

SECTION 26. The Board of Health may lay down rules on the participation of doctors and other authorised health professionals in the control of communicable and other communicable diseases.

§ 27. Where, in the case of preventive measures taken pursuant to Chapter 3 of this law to prevent the spread of contagious and other communicable diseases, any loss has claimed the claim to be compensating for that ; public.

Paragraph 2. The amount of compensation in accordance with paragraph 1. 1 shall be determined by the epidemiological commission following negotiations with the injured. In the event that no agreement can be reached on the liability or the amount of compensation, the Commission shall be responsible for bringing the compensation issue to the courts.

§ 28. The Regions shall bear all expenditure under the law, including the substitutes referred to in paragraph 27, except for the following : 1) The owner of a ship or aircraft shall bear in accordance with rules laid down by the Minister for Health and the Prevention of Prevention and Prevention of Prevention ; any eradication of rats or other rodents and vectors in accordance with section 18 (4). 2, including an amount to cover the costs of the epidemics mission. 2) The owner of a ship or aircraft which, following the estimate of the epidemics mission, shall only enter port or make landings to land sick or equal, the costs of any measures implemented under the law, with the exception of expenditure incurred, shall be borne by the following : medical examination and other supplementary studies which are necessary for the examination of a person ' s health of health. 3) In the case referred to in paragraph 1, 2) the owner of the ship or aircraft costs for the treatment and care and the burial or the body of the dead shall be borne by the ship. 4) Expenditure for measures taken in cases under the law shall be covered as far as possible by the value of the stranded goods. 5) People who are unduly taken on board a ship or aircraft prior to authorisation for free consent shall be borne by the costs incurred by the operation.

Paragraph 2. The costs incurred by an authority shall be held in the cases referred to in paragraph 1. 1, no. 1), 1. pkt., and no. 2)-5) the enclosed right of the panzer.

Chapter 6

Penalty provisions, etc.

§ 29. Unless higher penalties are passed on to other legislation, penalty of fine or imprisonment shall be penalised up to 6 months the one (1) violates section 21, 2) violates or fails to comply with the injunction granted in accordance with section 5 (2). Paragraph 1, section 6, paragraph 6. One and three, section 7, section 11, paragraph 11. 2 and 3, section 12 (2). Paragraph 1, and section 16 (4). 1.

Paragraph 2. The provisions laid down in accordance with the law may be subject to penalty of fine or maximum sentence until 6 months for infringements of the provisions laid down in the regulations.

-$30. The search for infringement of the provisions of this Act may be carried out in accordance with the rules of law on search in cases which may lead to the sentence of freedom.

Chapter 7

Entry into force and so on.

§ 31. The law shall enter into force on 1. January 1980.

Paragraph 2. The following provisions shall be repealed :

1) Law No 138 of 10. In May 1915 on the spread of infectious diseases.

2) Law No 145 of 12. March 1918 on measures to combat the fight against tuberculin.

3) Lovanregulation no. 189 of 18. April 1945 on Amendment No 7. 138 of 10. In May 1915 on measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases (prohibition of use of latrine as fertilizer).

4) Law No 321 of 7. July, 1945, on Amendment No 7. 138 of 10. The ban on the spread of infectious diseases (prohibiting bathing) measures shall be made in May 1915.

5) Law No 67 of 31. March 1953 on quarantine measures against infectious diseases.

§ 32. The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland, but can, by means of a king, power in the Faroe Islands with the deviations that the particular ferotable relationships are saying.


Law No 433 of 8. May 2007 Amendment of the Act on infectious diseases (The Act's scope and central road conductivity competence). (v) contains the following effective provision.

§ 2

The law shall enter into force on 1. January 2008. 1)


Law No 1172 by 10. In December 2008, Amendment of the Act of Measures against infectious and other communicable diseases (Hygiejnecertificates etc.) contains the following effective provision.

§ 2

The law shall enter into force on 1. January, 2009. 2)

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, the 27th. August 2009Jakob Axel Nielsen / Helle Hylletall

Appendix 1

List A.

Almented hazardous diseases, cf. Section 2 (2) of the law. 1

Disease denomination

Danish
International
Cups
Smallpox
Sbe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Viral haemorrhagic fever (Ebola, Lassa and Marburg)
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa-fever, Ebola viral disease, Marburg viral disease)
Plague
Plague

Appendix 2

List B.

Other contagious and other communicable diseases, cf. Section 2 (2) of the law. 1

Disease denomination

Danish
International
Diphi
Diphtheria
Cholera
Cholera
Typhoid
Typhoid fever
Paratyfus
Paratyphoid fever
Shigellosis
Shigellosis
Polio
Poliomyelitis
Meningococa disease
Meningococcal disease
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Hepatitis A (infectious hepatitis)
Hepatitis A
Salmonella infections
Salmonellosis
Anthrax
Anthrax
Mobslinger
Measles
Botulism
Botulism
Influenza, pre-pandemically alarme period
Influenza, banmic alert period
Bird flu.
Avian flu
MRSA infections / colonisation
MRSA-infection/carriage
Verocytotoxin-productor E. coli (VTEC)-infection
Verocytotoxin EM E. coli dexe
Disease of serious illness for unknown reason 1)
Outbreak of serious disease of unknown cause
1) Requires the Health Board setting
Official notes

1) The law concerns the law : the law of the law, headings 3 and 4, § 1, § 2, § 3, § 4, § 7, § 10, § 10, § 12, § 15, § 20, § 20, § 20, § 20, § 20, § 20, § 22, § 23, § 26, and 27 and List A and B as annexes to the law.

2) The laws of the law concern : section 18 (2). 2, section 26 and section 28 (3). 1, no. 1.