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Public Health Act 1997
107Unauthorised assertions
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107 Unauthorised assertions (1) A person must not make an assertion to a contact of a third person that the third person has a transmissible notifiable condition without the consent of the third person, unless authorised to do so under this Act.
(2) This section applies in relation to a person asserted to have a transmissible notifiable condition irrespective of the truth of the assertion. contact, in relation to a person asserted to have a transmissible notifiable condition, means a person who would be a contact of the other person if the other person had that condition.