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Public Health Act 2005
sec.103Obtaining contact information from health information held by a health agency
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### sec.103 Obtaining contact information from health information held by a health agency
Subsection (2) applies if a contact tracing officer—
reasonably suspects that a person has a notifiable condition; and
has been unable to locate and question the person despite reasonable attempts to do so.
The contact tracing officer may inspect health information held by a health agency to obtain the following information (also the contact information )—
the person’s name and residential address or another address where the person may be contacted;
the name and address, whereabouts and telephone number of another person—
who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or
to whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition;
information about the circumstances in which the person may have been exposed to the notifiable condition or may have exposed others to the notifiable condition.
See also section 99 (2) .
This section applies despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of another law that deals with confidentiality, including, for example, the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 , section 142 .
s 103 amd 2011 No. 32 s 332 sch 1 pt 2 (amd 2012 No. 9 s 47 )
(sec.103-ssec.1) Subsection (2) applies if a contact tracing officer— reasonably suspects that a person has a notifiable condition; and has been unable to locate and question the person despite reasonable attempts to do so.
(sec.103-ssec.2) The contact tracing officer may inspect health information held by a health agency to obtain the following information (also the contact information )— the person’s name and residential address or another address where the person may be contacted; the name and address, whereabouts and telephone number of another person— who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or to whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition; information about the circumstances in which the person may have been exposed to the notifiable condition or may have exposed others to the notifiable condition. See also section 99 (2) .
(sec.103-ssec.3) This section applies despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of another law that deals with confidentiality, including, for example, the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 , section 142 .
- (a) reasonably suspects that a person has a notifiable condition; and
- (b) has been unable to locate and question the person despite reasonable attempts to do so.
- (a) the person’s name and residential address or another address where the person may be contacted;
- (b) the name and address, whereabouts and telephone number of another person— (i) who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or (ii) to whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition;
- (i) who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or
- (ii) to whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition;
- (c) information about the circumstances in which the person may have been exposed to the notifiable condition or may have exposed others to the notifiable condition.
- (i) who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or
- (ii) to whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition;