Hong Kong Regulations

CHILD CARE SERVICES REGULATIONS - REGULATION 41

Scheduled infectious diseases*

(Past version on 09/06/2000).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If a medical officer certifies that any child or employee should be
excluded from the centre by reason of suffering, or having recently suffered,
from any scheduled infectious disease or by reason of having been in contact
with or living in the same house as a person suffering from a scheduled
infectious disease, the supervisor of the centre shall, if so required in
writing by the medical officer, cause such child or employee to be excluded
from the centre for such period as shall seem necessary.

(2) If the supervisor suspects or knows of a case of scheduled infectious
disease amongst children or employees of a centre, or suspects or knows that
any such person has been in contact with a case of scheduled infectious
disease, he shall immediately so report to a medical officer.

(3) In this regulation, “scheduled infectious disease” (表列傳染病)
has the same meaning as in the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (
Cap 599).

(14 of 2008 s. 18)
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* (Amended 14 of 2008 s. 18) “scheduled infectious disease”
(表列傳染病)