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Health Act 1956

Management of infectious diseases - Contact tracing

92ZZE: When contact tracer may undertake contact tracing

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"When a contact tracer can do contact tracing instead of you"

When a contact tracer needs you to give them information under section 92ZZC, they can do the contact tracing themselves if they think it is not possible or appropriate for you to do it. They can also do the contact tracing themselves if they have asked you to do it, but they are not satisfied that you have done it or done it properly. If the contact tracer decides to do the contact tracing, they will tell you what they are doing, if it is practical to do so.

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Part 3AManagement of infectious diseases
Contact tracing

92ZZEWhen contact tracer may undertake contact tracing

  1. This section applies whenever a contact tracer requires an individual to provide information under section 92ZZC and one of the following applies:

  2. the contact tracer does not consider that it would be possible or appropriate for the individual to undertake the contact tracing; or
    1. the contact tracer has asked the individual to undertake the contact tracing, and the contact tracer is not satisfied that the contact tracing has been undertaken or that it has been undertaken adequately.

      1. If this section applies, the contact tracer may undertake the contact tracing.

      2. The contact tracer must, wherever practicable, inform the individual of the course of action taken under subsection (2).

      Notes
      • Section 92ZZE: inserted, on , by section 11 of the Health (Protection) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 35).