Blood testing for communicable diseases—Notification of results to affected person (section 20B of Act)
7 Blood testing for communicable diseases—Notification of results to affected person (section 20B of Act)
The
Commissioner of Police must take reasonable steps to notify the following persons of the results of testing for communicable diseases undertaken on material obtained from a forensic procedure carried out pursuant to section 20B of the Act:
each affected person;
if the affected person is under the age of 16 years—the affected person's parent or guardian.
The
Commissioner of Police is taken to have complied with the requirement of subregulation (1) to notify a person or the person's parent or guardian of the results of testing on provision of the results to a medical practitioner nominated by the person or the person's parent or guardian.
In this regulation—
affected person in relation to a forensic procedure, means a person engaged in prescribed employment referred to in section 20B(1)(b) of the
Act who likely came into contact with, or was otherwise exposed to, biological material of the person on whom the forensic procedure is carried out.
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