92ZZCDuty of individual with infectious disease to provide information about contacts

1. If the contact tracer has, under section 92ZZB, formed the view that contact tracing in respect of an individual with an infectious disease or suspected of having an infectious disease should be undertaken, the contact tracer may require the individual to give the contact tracer information about the circumstances in which the infectious disease may have been transmitted to, or by, the individual.

2. Before requiring an individual under subsection (1), the contact tracer must inform the individual of the reasons for the requirement.

3. An individual with an infectious disease or suspected of having an infectious disease must, if required by the contact tracer, provide information about—

4. those people with whom he or she is, and has been, in contact:
5. the circumstances in which he or she believes he or she contracted, or may have transmitted, the infectious disease.

6. For the purposes of subsection (3), the information the individual with an infectious disease or suspected of having an infectious disease may be required to provide about each person with whom he or she has been in contact includes—

7. the name of each contact:
8. the age of each contact:
9. the sex of each contact:
10. the address and other contact details of each contact:
11. any other information required by regulations made under this Act.

12. If the individual is under 16 years of age, or lacks legal capacity, or the individual is deceased, the contact tracer may require that the applicable one of the following persons provide the information:

13. the parent, guardian, or person in charge of the individual who is under 16 years of age:
14. the person in charge of the individual who lacks legal capacity:
15. the individual’s legal representative.