Public Health Act 2005

This section applies if the chief executive considers further information is required in relation to a notice given under this division—

to ensure the accuracy, completeness or integrity of the register; or

to prevent or minimise the spread of a notifiable condition.

The chief executive may ask the following persons to give stated information within a stated time to the chief executive—

the person who gave the notice;

the doctor mentioned in a notice under section 72 or 73 as the doctor who referred the specimen for pathological examination;

another doctor or person who is involved in the treatment of the person for whom a notice was given under this division.

If a person refuses or fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (2), the chief executive may give the person a notice requiring the person to give the information stated in the notice to the chief executive within the reasonable time stated in the notice.

A notice under subsection (3) may require a person to give the full name of, and other identifying information about, a person for whom an anonymity code has been used.

The notice must warn the person that failure to comply with the notice is an offence under this Act.

A person given a notice under subsection (3) must comply with the notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

A person who gives information requested under this section who would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the information given under an Act, oath, rule of law or practice—

does not contravene the Act, oath, rule of law or practice by giving the information; and

is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the information.

Also, merely because the person gives the information, the person can not be held to have—

breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or

departed from accepted standards of professional conduct.