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Public Health Act 1997
106Notification by affected person—notifiable conditions
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106 Notification by affected person—notifiable conditions
(1) This section applies if an authorised officer has reasonable grounds
for believing that a person has a notifiable condition.
(2) The authorised officer may request the person concerned to provide
any of the following information to the officer:
(a) the person’s name and address;
(b) information about circumstances under which the person may
have acquired, or been exposed to, the condition;
(c) in the case of a transmissible notifiable condition—
(i) information about circumstances under which the person
may have transmitted the condition; and
(ii) the name and address, or the name and whereabouts, of any
person the authorised officer has reasonable grounds for
believing to be a contact of the person’s.
(3) Before requesting information from a person under subsection (2), an
authorised officer must inform the person of the reason for the
request.
(4) Upon request by a person who is the subject of a request by an
authorised officer under subsection (2), the authorised officer must
produce the officer’s identity card and, unless the authorised officer
is the chief health officer, the officer’s authorisation.
(5) A person must comply with a request made by an authorised officer
under subsection (2), unless—
(a) the authorised officer fails to comply with this section; or
(b) the person has any other reasonable excuse for failing to comply
with the request.
(6) As soon as possible after making a request under subsection (2), an
authorised officer must make a written record of the grounds for the
officer’s belief that the person concerned has a notifiable condition.