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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1047

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The AIDS (Control) (Contents of Reports) (No. 2) Order 1988

Made

14th June 1988

Laid before Parliament

22nd June 1988

Coming into force

13th July 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5)(b) and (6) of the AIDS (Control) Act 1987(1) I hereby make the following Order:-

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the AIDS (Control) (Contents of Reports) (No. 2) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 13th July 1988.

Amendment of Schedule

2.-(1) The Schedule to the AIDS (Control) Act 1987 (contents of reports by Authorities and Boards) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Article.

(2) There shall be inserted immediately after paragraph 2 of that Schedule the following paragraph-

"2A. The number of positive results known to the Authority or Board to have been obtained in the reporting period from blood samples taken for the purposes of HIV antibody tests by facilities or services provided by the Authority or Board."

(3) Paragraph 8(2) shall be omitted.

Revocation of Order

3. The AIDS (Control) (Contents of Reports) Order 1988(3) is hereby revoked.

John Moore

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

14th June 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Schedule to the AIDS (Control) Act 1987 so as to secure that reports of the number of positive results of HIV antibody tests are covered by the confidentiality provisions in paragraph 3. The previous Order of 1988, which required this number to be reported without that safeguard, is revoked.

(1)

1987 c. 33.

(2)

Paragraph 8 was added to the Schedule by S.I. 1988/117.

(3)

S.I. 1988/117.