112Notification of public health hazards

112 Notification of public health hazards (1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to notify the chief health officer of the presence or occurrence, at a place occupied by the person, in any food, water or air or elsewhere in the environment, of any substance or matter that the person has reasonable grounds for believing to constitute a significant public health hazard. substance or matter includes— (a) a contaminant; and (b) an organism that causes, or that may cause, a notifiable condition; and (c) any other human pathogenic organism.