Public Health Act 1997

This section applies if an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has a notifiable condition.

The authorised officer may request the person concerned to provide any of the following information to the officer:

the person’s name and address;

information about circumstances under which the person may have acquired, or been exposed to, the condition;

in the case of a transmissible notifiable condition—

information about circumstances under which the person may have transmitted the condition; and

the name and address, or the name and whereabouts, of any person the authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing to be a contact of the person’s.

Before requesting information from a person under subsection (2), an authorised officer must inform the person of the reason for the request.

Upon request by a person who is the subject of a request by an authorised officer under subsection (2), the authorised officer must produce the officer’s identity card and, unless the authorised officer is the chief health officer, the officer’s authorisation.

A person must comply with a request made by an authorised officer under subsection (2), unless—

the authorised officer fails to comply with this section; or

the person has any other reasonable excuse for failing to comply with the request.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

As soon as possible after making a request under subsection (2), an authorised officer must make a written record of the grounds for the officer’s belief that the person concerned has a notifiable condition.