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Public Health Act 1997
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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.