National health act 61 of 2003

(22 February 1991 – 21 April 1994)
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 61 OF 2003
(Government Notice 869 in Government Gazette 26595 dated 23 July 2004. Commencement date: 2 May 2005, unless otherwise indicated. [Proc. R19, Gazette No. 27503, dated 18 April 2005]. See Act for list of commencement Proclamations.
DECLARATION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS TO BE NOTIFIABLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS IN TERMS OF SECTION 45 OF THE HEALTH ACT, 1977 (ACT No. 63 OF 1977)
Government Notice R328 in Government Gazette 13029 dated 22 February 1991. Commencement date: 22 February 1991.
I, Elizabeth Hendrina Venter, Minister of National Health, acting under and by virtue of section 45 of the Health Act, 1977 (Act No. 63 of 1977)-
(a) hereby declare the medical conditions specified in the Schedule hereto to be notifiable medical conditions;
(b) hereby withdraw Government Notice No. R. 2708 of 15 December 1989.
SCHEDULE
Acute rheumatic fever;

Anthrax;

Brucellosis;

Cholera;

Congenital syphilis;

Diphtheria;

Food poisoning (outbreaks of more than four persons);

Haemorrhagic fevers of Africa (Congo fever, Dengue fever, Ebola fever, Lassa fever, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever);

Lead poisoning;

Legionellosis;

Leprosy;

Malaria;

Measles (rubeola);

Meningococcal infections;

Paratyphoid fever;

Plague;

Poisoning from any agricultural or stock remedy registered in terms of the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947);

Poliomyelitis;

Rabies (specify whether human case or human contact);

Smallpox and any smallpox-like disease, excluding chickenpox;

Tetanus;

Tetanus neonatorum;

Trachoma;

Tuberculosis-

(i) pulmonary and other forms, except cases diagnosed solely on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms;
(ii) in the case of any child younger than 5 years with a significant reaction following tuberculin testing;

Typhoid fever;

Typhus fever (epidemic louse-borne typhus fever, endemic flea-borne typhus fever);

Viral hepatitis A, B, non-A, non-B and undifferentiated;

Yellow fever.
E. H.VENTER,

Minister of National Health