# The Detention Centre (Specified Diseases) Order 2001

S.I. 2001/240 · made 28 January 2001

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

Made under: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Schedule 12 paragraph 3)

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## Introductory text

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 1999, hereby makes the following Order:

## 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.

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