{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008/section-12",
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  "legislation": "asp/2008/5",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Lists of notifiable diseases and notifiable organisms",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“notifiable disease” means a disease listed in Part 1 of schedule 1; and\n“notifiable organism” means an organism listed in Part 2 of schedule 1.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend a list in schedule 1 by—\n(a) adding an item to the list;\n(b) removing an item from the list;\n(c) varying the description of an item in the list.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (2) may add a disease or organism to a list only if the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the disease or organism is likely to give rise to a significant risk to public health.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers must, when considering whether a disease or organism is likely to give rise to such a risk, have regard—\n(a) in the case of a disease, to—\n(i) the seriousness of the disease; and\n(ii) the ease of transmissibility through casual contact of the disease;\n(b) in the case of an organism, to the seriousness and ease of transmissibility through casual contact of the disease which the organism would cause.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 1.1.2010 by S.S.I. 2009/404, art. 2(3), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/5/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:45.653037+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}