Public Health Act 2016

If a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner forms the opinion that a patient of the practitioner has, or may have, a notifiable infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease‑related condition, the practitioner must notify the Chief Health Officer.

If a medical practitioner conducts a post mortem examination of a body and forms the opinion that the deceased person had, or may have had, a notifiable infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease‑related condition at the time of death, the medical practitioner must notify the Chief Health Officer.

If the analysis of a sample undertaken at a pathology laboratory indicates that the patient from whom the sample was taken has, or may have, a notifiable infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease‑related condition, the responsible pathologist of that pathology laboratory must notify the Chief Health Officer.

Notification under this section must be given —

as soon as is practicable, and in any event —

in the case of an urgently notifiable infectious disease or an urgently notifiable infectious disease‑related condition, within 24 hours; or

in the case of any other notifiable infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease‑related condition, within 72 hours;

in the approved form (if any).

Notification under this section, to the extent to which the medical practitioner, nurse practitioner or responsible pathologist has the information —

must include the name of the notifiable infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease‑related condition; and

must include the following information, unless the regulations provide otherwise —

the name, residential address, telephone numbers, email address, date of birth and gender of the patient;

the name, business address, telephone numbers and email address of the patient’s medical practitioner or nurse practitioner;

must include any other information prescribed by the regulations.

The information prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of subsection (5) may vary in respect of different notifiable infectious diseases or notifiable infectious disease‑related conditions.