Chief Health Officer may ensure direction complied with
13 Chief Health Officer may ensure direction complied with
Subject to any order made by NTCAT under section 12(3), if a person is served with a notice under section 11(1) and the person fails to comply with the notice, the Chief Heath Officer may make any order that the Chief Heath Officer thinks fit.
Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Chief
Health Officer may order, either in writing or orally, that:
an infected person or suspect person be removed to and detained at a hospital or other place until a medical officer authorizes the release of the person on the grounds that that person is not an infected person or is no longer a suspect person;
premises in which an infected person or suspect person has resided, worked, attended for educational purposes or has otherwise occupied, shall be closed for a specified period or disinfected, or both;
bedding, clothing or other articles which have been, or which are believed to have been, exposed to contamination by an infected person or to possible contamination by a suspect person be destroyed or disinfected; or
a supply of water for human consumption or use which is or is suspected of being contaminated by a notifiable disease be treated to render it fit for human consumption or use.
The Chief Health Officer may take whatever steps are necessary to give effect to an order under subsection (2).
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