Article 14 Notification of diseases

Any reference—

(a)

in section 11 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984^f1 (which requires cases of notifiable diseases and food poisoning to be reported) to a registered medical practitioner, or

(b)

in section 2 of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967^f2 (which specifies the duties of a medical practitioner on diagnosis of notifiable diseases) to a medical practitioner,

shall include a reference to a person who holds an appointment as a medical officer in the service of a visiting force or headquarters.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1984 c. 22; section 11 was amended by paragraph 108(1) and (3) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).
f2: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.).