Powers within isolation area
19 Powers within isolation area
(1) A medical officer or authorized person may ask such questions of:
a person who is or was located within; or
(b) a person whom the medical officer or authorized person believes to have been located within,
an isolation area either while a declaration made under section 17 is or was in force, or within 14 days prior to the date of that declaration, as are necessary for him to ascertain:
the identity of the person;
whether or not the person has been within the isolation area;
whether the person is an infected person or a suspect person;
(f) the identity of a person with whom the person may have come in contact before, within or since leaving the isolation area; and
(g) the details of goods with which the person has had contact and their whereabouts.
(2) A person who is questioned under subsection (1) shall truly answer to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him.
(3) It is not a defence to a prosecution under this section that a person did not know that:
he was entering, leaving or located in an isolation area;
(b) the person asking questions under subsection (1) was a medical officer or authorized person; or
(c) he was required to truly answer to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him.
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