S.I. No. 288/1988 - Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations, 1988.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations, 1988.

2. In these Regulations the expression "Principal Regulations" means the Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1981 (S.I. No. 390 of 1981).

3. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations as amended by the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations, 1985 (

S.I. No. 268 of 1985

) is hereby further amended by the insertion therein before "Influenzal pneumonia" of "Infectious parotitis (mumps)".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this

14th day of November, 1988.

RORY O'HANLON,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations designate mumps as an infectious disease under the Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1981 (S.I. No. 390 of 1981).

S.I. No. 288 of 1988.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1988.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

sections 5

and

29

of the

Health Act, 1947

(No. 28 of 1947) and by section 31 of the said Act, as amended by

section 34

of the

Health Act, 1953

(No. 26 of 1953), hereby makes the following Regulations:—