Health Act 1956

Infectious and notifiable diseases

85: Notice of death from infectious disease

You could also call this:

"Telling the doctor when someone dies from a sickness that can spread"

When someone dies from an infectious disease, you must tell the medical officer of health right away if you are in charge of the funeral. You need to do this after you know the cause of death and before you move the body from where it is. You have to give the medical officer of health a notice in a special form and way, telling them that the person died and what they died from.

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Part 3Infectious and notifiable diseases

85Notice of death from infectious disease

  1. When any person has died of an infectious disease, the funeral director or other person having charge of the funeral of the deceased shall forthwith, after having been informed of the cause of death and before the removal of the body from the building or other place in which it may then be, give to the medical officer of health notice in the prescribed form and manner of the fact of the death and the cause thereof.

  2. Repealed
Notes
  • Section 85(2): repealed, on , by section 3(3) of the Health and Disability Services Amendment Act 1995 (1995 No 84).