62Making of public health orders relating to person with Category 4 or 5 condition or contact order condition

62 Making of public health orders relating to person with Category 4 or 5 condition or contact order condition

62 Making of public health orders relating to person with Category 4 or 5 condition or contact order condition

(cf 1991 Act, s 23)

(1) An authorised medical practitioner may make a public health order in respect of a person if satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that—

(a) the person has a Category 4 or 5 condition and because of the way the person behaves may, as a consequence of that condition, be a risk to public health, or

(b) the person—

(i) has been exposed to a contact order condition, and

(ii) is at risk of developing the contact order condition, and

(iii) because of the way the person behaves, may be a risk to public health.

(2) A public health order—

(a) must be in writing, and

(b) must name the person subject to the order, and

(c) must state the grounds on which it is made, and

(d) must state that, unless sooner revoked, it expires—

(i) if the public health order is made in respect of a person referred to in subsection (1)(b)—at the end of the period specified opposite the relevant condition in Schedule 1A, or

(ii) in any other case—at the end of a specified period (not exceeding 28 days),

after it is served on the person subject to the order.

Note.

An order based on a Category 5 condition expires after 3 days unless an application is made for its confirmation (see section 63(2)).

(3) A public health order may require the person subject to the order to do any one or more of the following—

(a) to refrain from specified conduct,

(b) to undergo specified treatment (whether at a specified place or otherwise),

(c) to undergo counselling by one or more specified persons or by one or more persons belonging to a specified class of persons,

(d) to submit to the supervision of one or more specified persons or of one or more persons belonging to a specified class of persons,