Hong Kong Regulations

EDUCATION REGULATIONS - REGULATION 53

Scheduled infectious diseases*

(Past version on 01/01/2005).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If a medical officer of schools certifies that any teacher, pupil, or
employee should be excluded from school 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 management authority shall, if so required
in writing by the medical officer in charge of the school health services,
cause such teacher, pupil, or employee to be excluded from school for such
period as shall seem necessary. (L.N. 57 of 1974; 27 of 2004 s. 70)

(2) The principal shall immediately report to a medical officer of schools any
suspected or known case of scheduled infectious disease amongst teachers,
pupils or employees of a school, or when he suspects or knows that any such
person has been in contact with a case of scheduled  infectious disease.

(14 of 2008 s. 18)
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* (Amended 14 of 2008 s. 18)