Public health, England and Wales : the public health (infectious diseases) regulations 1968.
- United Kingdom
- Date:
- 1968
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Public health, England and Wales : the public health (infectious diseases) regulations 1968. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 1968 No. 1366 PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968 Made - - - - 23rd August 1968 Laid before Parliament 3041 29th August 1968 Coming into Operation lst October 1968 The Minister of Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 143 (as extended by section 56 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968(a)) and section 283(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Public Health Act 1936(b) and section 108 of the Local Government Act 1933(c), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations :— ParRT [ PRELIMINARY Title and commencement 1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968 and shall come into operation on Ist October 1968. Interpretation 2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “the Act of 1936”? means the Public Health Act 1936; “the Act of 1961’’ means the Public Health Act 1961(d) “‘the Act of 1968” means the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968; ‘‘certificate’’ means a certificate required by section 48 of the Act of 1968 to be sent by a medical practitioner to a medical officer of health; “Chief Medical Officer” means the Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health; “county district” means a non-county borough or an urban district or rural district; “district”? means the district of a local authority (and includes part of a district) ; “local authority’? means— (a) as respects a county borough or county district, the council thereof; (b) as respects a London borough, the council of the borough; (c) as respects the City of London, the Common Council; and (d) as respects the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, the Sub- Treasurer and the Under-Treasurer thereof respectively; ‘“‘the Minister’’ means the Minister of Health; “notifiable disease’? has the same meaning as in section 343(1) of the Act of 1936 (as amended by section 47 of the Act of 1968); “ophthalmia neonatorum” means a purulent discharge from the eyes of an infant, commencing within 21 days from the date of birth; (a) 1968 c. 46. (b) 1936 c. 49. (c) 1933 c. 51. (d) 1961 c. 64. [M.H.825]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32185315_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
