1989.09.01
STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON THE PREVENTION AND
TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(Adopted at the Sixth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the
Seventh National People's Congress on February 21, 1989, promulgated
by Order No. 15 of the President of the People's Republic of China on
February 21, 1989, and effective as of September 1, 1989)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER II PREVENTION
CHAPTER III REPORTING ON AND ANNOUNCING THE EPIDEMIC SITUATION
CHAPTER IV CONTROL
CHAPTER V SUPERVISION
CHAPTER VI LEGAL LIABILITIES
CHAPTER VII SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
@@ Article 1. This Law is enacted in order to prevent,
control and eliminate the occurrence and epidemic of infectious
diseases and to ensure the health of the people.
@@ Article 2. The state shall implement a policy of putting the
emphasis on prevention, combining prevention with treatment
and classified management with respect to infectious diseases.
@@ Article 3. The infectious diseases governed by this Law
shall be divided into Classes A, B, and C.
A Class infectious diseases shall include plague and cholera.
B Class infectious diseases shall include viral hepatitis,
bacillary and amebic dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid, AIDS,
gonorrhea, syphilis, poliomyelitis, measles, pertussis,
diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever,
epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies, leptospirosis, brucellosis,
anthrax, epidemic and endemic typhus, epidemic encephalitis B,
kala-azar, malaria, and dengue fever.
C Class infectious diseases shall include pulmonary
tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, filariasis, echinococcosis, leprosy,
influenza, epidemic parotitis, rubella, tetanus neonatorum, acute
hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and infectious diarrhea other than
cholera, dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid.
The State Council may, according to circumstances, increase or
decrease the number of A Class infectious diseases and make
corresponding announcements; the health administration department
under the State Council may, according to circumstances, increase or
decrease the number of B Class and C Class infectious diseases and make
corresponding announcements.
@@ Article 4. Governments at various levels shall direct the
work of preventing and treating infectious diseases, draw up
programmes for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases
and be responsible for their implementation.
@@ Article 5. The health administration departments of
governments at various levels shall exercise uniform supervision
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