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Health Act 1956

Infectious and notifiable diseases

74B: Medical laboratories may be required to give notice of cases of disease during epidemic

You could also call this:

"Labs must report certain diseases during an epidemic"

If there is an epidemic, the government can make a special notice called an epidemic management notice. This notice can say that medical laboratories must tell the government about cases of a certain disease. You can read more about this in section 8 of the Health Amendment Act 2006.

The notice can apply to all of New Zealand, or just to some parts of the country. While the notice is in force, medical laboratories have to follow the rules about telling the government about the disease.

The notice might expire, but if someone did something wrong while it was in force, they can still get in trouble. The rules about the disease are a bit like the rules about notifiable diseases, but they are specifically about the disease mentioned in the notice.

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Part 3Infectious and notifiable diseases

74BMedical laboratories may be required to give notice of cases of disease during epidemic

  1. Before the commencement of section 8 of the Health Amendment Act 2006, an epidemic management notice may provide for this Act to have effect as if section 74AA (as to be inserted by that section) were already in force, but in relation only to the disease stated in the notice.

  2. Unless the notice provides that section 74AA is to apply to medical laboratories in stated parts of New Zealand only, the section applies to medical laboratories throughout New Zealand.

  3. While the notice is in force, every provision of this Act (other than this section) has effect—

  4. as if section 74AA were in force; but
    1. as if the references in that section to a notifiable disease were references to the quarantinable disease stated in the notice (or, if 2 or more notices are in force, to the quarantinable diseases stated in the notices).

      1. The fact that the notice has expired does not affect any criminal or civil liability arising while it was in force.

      Notes
      • Section 74B: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Health Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 86).
      • Section 74B(1): amended, on , by section 9 of the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 44).