Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988

Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instrument
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation	SI 1988/1546
Introduced by	Ministry of Health
Dates
Commencement	1988
Other legislation
Revoked by	Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010
Status: Repealed
Text of the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988, created by the Department of Health and Social Care, came into force on 1 October 1988 and was associated with the previous Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984. 24 more diseases were added, indicating exact control powers that could be applied to individual diseases.^[1][2][3][4] The regulations also revoked the previous Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1985.^[5]

Notifiable diseases

In addition to cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, typhus and food poisoning, the regulations of 1988 consist of 24 additional conditions:^[6]

• Acute encephalitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Meningitis
• Meningococcal septicaemia
• Anthrax
• Diphtheria
• Dysentery
• Paratyphoid fever
• Typhoid fever
• Viral hepatitis
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Measles
• Mumps
• Rubella
• Whooping cough
• Malaria
• Tetanus
• Yellow fever
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• Rabies
• Scarlet fever
• Tuberculosis
• Viral haemorrhagic fever

Scotland and Northern Ireland required notification of chicken pox and legionellosis in addition to the above.^[6]

References

1. Monaghan, Stephen (2002). "Summary". The State of Communicable Disease Law (PDF). London: The Nuffield Trust. ISBN 1-902089-68-5.
2. David Ashley Price, ed. (2010). "2. Ethical and medico-legal issues". Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health. Oxford University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-19-957166-6.
3. John Coggon; Keith Syrett; A. M. Viens (2017). "3. The evolution of public health legislation and regulation". Public Health Law: Ethics, Governance, and Regulation. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-138-79075-9.
4. "The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988". PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES. 1988.
5. "The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988 - Schedule 5". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
6. Elson, Richard (2004). "Part 4. Epidemiology. Chapter 12. Communicable disease legislation port health". In Stephen Battersby (ed.). Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health. W.H. Bassett (19th ed.). Routledge. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-415-31808-2.