Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents i Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 S.R. No. 8/2004 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objective 1 2. Authorising provisions 1 3. Commencement 1 4. Principal Regulations 1 5. Definitions 2 6. New Division 3 of Part 5 inserted 2 Division 3—Provision of Information 2 25A. Information to clients of skin penetration premises 2 7. Infectious disease 3 8. Notifiable diseases 3 9. Exclusion of cases of SARS from schools and children's services centres 4 10. Exclusion of cases of VTEC from schools and children's services centres 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 5 -- 1 of 6 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents 1 STATUTORY RULES 2004 S.R. No. 8/2004 Health Act 1958 Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 28 January 2004 Responsible Minister: BRONWYN PIKE Minister for Health STEPHANIE LENN Acting Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objective The objective of these Regulations is to make further provision for infectious diseases. 2. Authorising provisions These Regulations are made under sections 146, 390(1) and 391 of the Health Act 1958. 3. Commencement These Regulations come into operation on 30 January 2004. 4. Principal Regulations In these Regulations, the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 20011 are called the Principal Regulations. -- 2 of 6 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 8/2004 Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 2 5. Definitions In regulation 22 of the Principal Regulations, for "this Part" substitute "this Division and Division 2". 6. New Division 3 of Part 5 inserted After Division 2 of Part 5 of the Principal Regulations insert— "Division 3—Provision of Information 25A. Information to clients of skin penetration premises (1) The proprietor of a business that provides tattooing, ear piercing, acupuncture or any other process involving the penetration of the skin in a living human being must ensure, before such a process is provided to a person, that written information is provided directly to the person about the transmission of infectious diseases associated with the process. Penalty: 20 penalty units. (2) A proprietor of a business that provides tattooing, ear piercing, acupuncture or any other process involving the penetration of the skin in a living human being must take reasonable steps to ensure that the information about the transmission of infectious diseases provided to a person under sub-regulation (1) is medically accurate. Penalty: 20 penalty units. r. 5 -- 3 of 6 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 8/2004 Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 3 (3) This regulation does not apply to— (a) a business that is prescribed as an exempt business by regulation 5 of the Health (Exempt Businesses) Regulations 2000 2 ; or (b) the practice of acupuncture of— (i) a person registered as an acupuncturist under the Chinese Medicine Registration Act 2000; or (ii) a person authorised in accordance with section 61(11) of that Act.". 7. Infectious disease In Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations, in the list of items headed "Diseases or conditions caused by viral infections", after the item "Rubella—including congenital rubella" insert "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)". 8. Notifiable diseases (1) In Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations, in Group A, after "Rabies" insert— "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Smallpox Tularaemia". (2) In Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations, in Group B— (a) after "Campylobacter infection" insert "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)"; (b) after "Mumps" insert "Mycobacterium ulcerans"; (c) after "Tuberculosis" insert "variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)". r. 7 -- 4 of 6 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 8/2004 Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 4 9. Exclusion of cases of SARS from schools and children's services centres In Schedule 6 to the Principal Regulations, after the item relating to "Salmonella, Shigella"— (a) in column 1, insert "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)"; (b) in column 2, insert "Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is produced"; (c) in column 3, insert "Not excluded unless considered necessary by the Secretary". 10. Exclusion of cases of VTEC from schools and children's services centres In Schedule 6 to the Principal Regulations, after the item relating to "Typhoid fever (including paratyphoid fever)"— (a) in column 1, insert "Verotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC)"; (b) in column 2, insert "Exclude if required by the Secretary and only for the period specified by the Secretary"; (c) in column 3, insert "Not excluded". ═══════════════ r. 9 -- 5 of 6 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 8/2004 Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 5 ENDNOTES 1 Reg. 4: S.R. No. 41/2001. Amended by S.R. No. 82/2003. 2 Reg. 6 (in proposed new reg. 25A(3)(a)): S.R. No. 57/2000. Endnotes -- 6 of 6 --