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The Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001

S.I. 2001/240 · Made 28 January 2001

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IMMIGRATION

Made 28th January 2001

Laid before Parliament 6th February 2001

Coming into force 2nd April 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999f1, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 33.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule DISEASES ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF OTHERS
  5. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001.

2

The diseases listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified for the purposes of paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (diseases which might endanger the health of others).

Signature

Barbara Roche

Minister of State

Home Office

28th January 2001

DISEASES ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF OTHERS

  • Acute encephalitis

  • Acute poliomyelitis

  • Amoebic dysentry

  • Anthrax

  • Bacillary dysentry

  • Cholera

  • Diphtheria

  • Food poisoning

  • Leprosy

  • Leptospirosis

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • Meningitis

  • Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)

  • Mumps

  • Ophthalmia neonatorum

  • Parathyphoid fever

  • Plague

  • Rabies

  • Relapsing fever

  • Rubella

  • Salmonella infections

  • Scarlet fever

  • Smallpox

  • Staphylococcal infections likely to cause food poisoning

  • Tetanus

  • Tuberculosis

  • Typhoid fever

  • Typhus

  • Viral haemorrhagic fever

  • Viral hepatitis

  • Whooping cough

  • Yellow fever

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies certain diseases for the purpose of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Paragraph 3 allows a detainee custody officer at a detention centre to require a detained person to submit to a medical examination at the centre so long as an authorisation is in force (given by the manager of the centre) and there are reasonable grounds for believing that the individual is suffering from a disease which the Secretary of State considers might endanger the health of others there.