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Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions
Regulations.
Definitions
2 (1) In these regulations,
(a) “Act” means the Health Protection Act;
(b) “Guidelines” means the Nova Scotia Surveillance Guidelines for Notifiable
Diseases and Conditions as approved by the Chief Medical Officer;
(c) “report” means a report made under Section 31 of the Act.
(2) For the purposes of the Act,
(a) “infectious” or “contagious”, in relation to a person, means that the person
has a communicable disease;
(b) “resident” means
(i) a person who is placed in, remanded or admitted to an institution,
(ii) a child who attends a facility, as defined in the Day Care Act, or
(iii) a student who lives in a residence owned by an institution prescribed
in subsection (3).
(2A) For the purpose of further defining the definition of “dangerous disease” in clause
4(c) of the Act, the following words used in that definition are defined as follows:
(a) “Ebola” means Ebola hemorrhagic fever; and
(b) “Lassa fever” means Lassa hemorrhagic fever.
(3) For the purposes of subclause 4(i)(ix) of the Act, the following are prescribed as
institutions:
(a) Nova Scotia Community College;
(b) an institution or university under the Maritime Provinces Higher Education
Commission Act;
(c) a private career college under the Private Career Colleges Regulation Act;
(d) Université Sainte-Anne;
(e) a recreational camp as defined in the Recreational Camps Regulations made
under the Act.
(4) For the purpose of subsection 31(5) of the Act, “an illness is serious and is
occurring at a higher rate than is normal” refers to any of the following:
(a) a disease occurring more frequently than would normally be expected or in
a rare or unusual form;
(b) an unusual disease cluster;
(c) a disease outbreak;
(d) an unusual disease occurrence.
Prescribed circumstances under which report required
3 For the purpose of subsection 31(4) of the Act, the following circumstances are
prescribed as circumstances under which a report is required:
(a) when a person discovers a notifiable disease or condition as a result of a
biopsy or autopsy;
(b) when a blood test conducted by an employee of Canadian Blood Services
reveals a notifiable disease or condition;
(c) when a death certificate indicates that a deceased person had a notifiable
disease or condition at the time of death, and in that circumstance the report
must be made by the Deputy Registrar General appointed under the Vital
Statistics Act.
Report required only in circumstances that arise while functioning in professional
capacity
4 A person must make a report only if the circumstances that require the report arise while
the person is functioning in their professional capacity.
Report to be in accordance with Guidelines
5 A report must be made in accordance with the Guidelines.
Report to be made to medical officer
6 (1) A report must be made to the medical officer who has jurisdiction in the locality in
which the reporting person works.
(2) If a person who is the subject of a report does not live in the locality in which the
reporting person works, the medical officer who receives the report must forward it
to the medical officer who has jurisdiction in the locality of the person who is the
subject of the report.
System for reporting required at institution
7 An administrator of an institution must ensure that an appropriate system is in place to
ensure that all reports are made in accordance with these regulations.
Information required for reporting
8 A report must include, to the extent possible,
(a) the name, age, address, ethnicity and sex of the person who is the subject of
the report;
(b) the name of the notifiable disease or condition or the illness that is being
reported;
(c) all clinical and epidemiological details pertinent to the diagnosis and follow-up of the person who is the subject of the report; and
(d) the name and profession of, and contact information for, the reporting
person,
and any additional information required by the medical officer for case management and
prevention of transmission of the notifiable disease or condition or the illness.
Notice of report to Chief Medical Officer
9 A medical officer must notify the Chief Medical Officer, in the form and at the intervals
prescribed in the Guidelines, of all reports made to the medical officer.
Records required to be provided
10 (1) Every principal of a public school and operator of a private school under the
Education Act must provide to the medical officer who has jurisdiction in the
school’s locality copies of school records, such as absentee reports and class lists,
as required by the Guidelines or requested by the medical officer.
(2) Every director of a day care facility under the Day Care Act must provide to the
medical officer who has jurisdiction in the facility’s locality copies of records, such
as attendance records, daily logs, infant and toddler records, and menus, as required
by the Guidelines or requested by the medical officer.
Designations of diseases and conditions
11 (1) The diseases and conditions listed in Schedule A are designated as notifiable
diseases and conditions for the purpose of clause 4(m) of the Act.
(2) The diseases listed under the heading “Dangerous diseases designated by
regulations” in Part I of Schedule A are designated as dangerous diseases for the
purpose of clause 4(c) of the Act.
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Schedule A: List of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions
Part I—Communicable Diseases
Dangerous diseases specified in Act
All diseases specified in clause 4(c) of the Act
Dangerous diseases designated by regulations
Crimean congo hemorrhagic fever
Influenza virus of pandemic potential
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Rift Valley hemorrhagic fever
Viral hemorrhagic fevers- other
Other communicable diseases
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
Anaplasmosis
Anthrax
Babesiosis
Botulism
Brucellosis
Campylobacteriosis
Chlamydia
Cholera
Clostridium difficile
Congenital rubella syndrome
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease - classic (CJD)
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease - new variant (vCJD)
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Group A streptococcal disease invasive
Group B streptococcal disease of the newborn
Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) invasive disease
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Human Immunodeficiany [Immunodeficiency] Virus (HIV)
Influenza laboratory confirmed
Legionellosis
Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Malaria
Measles
Meningitis (bacterial)
Meningococcal disease invasive
Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Mpox
Mumps
Paratyphoid
Pertussis
Pneumococcal disease invasive
Poliomyelitis
Powassan virus
Rabies
Rubella
Salmonellosis
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Shellfish poisoning (amnesic)
Shellfish poisoning (domoic)
Shellfish poisoning (paralytic)
Shigellosis
Syphilis
Tetanus
Tularemia
Typhoid
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE)
Verotoxigenic escherichia coli infection
West Nile virus (WNv)
Yellow fever
Part II—Non-communicable Diseases and Conditions
Adverse events following immunization (AEFI)
Legislative History
Reference Tables
Reporting of Notifiable Diseases Regulations
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N.S. Reg.
195/2005
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Health Protection Act
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Note: The
information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is
compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only. |
Source Law
The current consolidation of the Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions Regulations made
under the Health Protection Act includes all of the following regulations:
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195/2005
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Nov 1, 2005 |
date specified |
Oct 28, 2005 |
255/2011 |
Aug 16, 2011 |
date specified |
Aug 26, 2011 |
62/2012 |
Apr 1, 2016 |
date specified |
Mar 23, 2012 |
13/2016 |
Mar 19, 2016 |
date specified |
Feb 5, 2016 |
146/2021 |
Nov 9, 2021 |
date specified |
Dec 3, 2021 |
90/2023 |
May 23, 2023 |
date specified |
Jun 2, 2023 |
The following regulations are not
yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:
*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for
rules about in force dates of regulations.
Amendments by Provision
ad. = added
am. = amended |
fc. = fee change
ra. = reassigned |
rep. = repealed
rs. = repealed and substituted |
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2(2A)................................................ |
ad. 62/2012 |
2(3)(e)............................................... |
ad. 255/2011 |
2(4)................................................... |
rs. 13/2016 |
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Part I—Communicable Diseases, Dangerous diseases
designated by regulation....................................... |
am. 62/2012 |
Part I—Communicable Diseases, Other communicable
diseases........................................... |
am. 62/2012, 13/2016, 146/2021, 90/2023 |
Part II—Non-communicable diseases and conditions................................ |
am. 62/2012 |
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Note that changes to headings are not
included in the above table.
Editorial Notes and Corrections
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1 |
The reference in clause 2(3)(c) to the Private
Career Colleges Regulation Act should be read as a reference to the Private
Career Colleges Act in accordance with amendment to the title of the Act
made by S.N.S. 2015, c. 25, s. 2. |
May 11, 2015 |
2 |
The reference to the Day Care Act in the
definition of “resident” in s. 2(2)(b) and in s. 10(2) should be read as a
reference to the Early Learning and Child Care Act in accordance with an
amendment to the title of the Act made by S.N.S. 2018, c. 33, s. 2, as
proclaimed in force by N.S. Reg. 163/2020. |
Oct 27, 2020 |
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Repealed and Superseded
Note: Only
regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this
table. It may not reflect the entire
history of regulations on this subject matter.