Public Health Act 2005

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.

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.