Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 91

91 .         Declaration of notifiable infectious disease-related conditions

        (1)         In this section —

        acute rheumatic fever means an illness caused by an autoimmune response to a bacterial infection with group A streptococcus (GAS);

        rheumatic heart disease means damage to the heart resulting from an episode, or more than one episode, of acute rheumatic fever.

        (1A)         The regulations may —

            (a)         declare a medical condition, other than a notifiable infectious disease, to be a notifiable infectious disease-related condition; or

            (b)         declare a notifiable infectious disease-related condition to be an urgently notifiable infectious disease-related condition.

        (2)         A medical condition cannot be declared to be a notifiable infectious disease-related condition or an urgently notifiable infectious disease-related condition unless it is a medical condition that —

            (a)         is or may be caused by an infectious disease; or

            (b)         is or may be a complication arising from an infectious disease; or

            (c)         arises or may arise out of vaccination for an infectious disease.

        (3)         The following medical conditions cannot be declared to be a notifiable infectious disease-related condition or an urgently notifiable infectious disease-related condition —

            (a)         acute rheumatic fever;

            (b)         rheumatic heart disease.

        [Section 91 amended: No. 14 of 2019 s. 5.]