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3 Purpose of Act
The purpose of this Act is to help ensure that a police officer or other public officer who, in the course of duty, is exposed to the risk of transmission of certain infectious diseases receives appropriate medical, physical and psychological treatment by authorising —
(a)
the taking of a sample from a person who, if carrying an infectious disease, might have transmitted it to the officer; and
(b)
the analysis of the sample to find out whether the person is carrying the infectious disease.
[Section 3 amended: No. 21 of 2020 s. 4.]
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