Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations

Western Australia

HEALTH ACT 1911

Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations 1971

1.Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations.

2. Inspection of person with infectious disease

Any medical officer or other public health official who suspects on reasonable grounds that a person may be —

(a)suffering from an infectious disease; or

(b)a medium for the transmission of an infectious disease,

may examine bacteriologically or otherwise that person at any place where that person may be for the purpose of ascertaining whether that person is suffering from such a disease or is such a medium and that person shall submit to such examination and permit the medical officer or other public health official to remove such specimens as he considers necessary to a proper examination.

3. Power to enter premises and remove person

In order to effect an examination of any person the medical officer or other public health official may enter upon any land or into any house and may remove the person to be examined to any other place where the examination may be more conveniently made.

4. Offences

Any person who in any way hinders or prevents the medical officer or other public health official from making or completing an examination of any person commits an offence and is liable to —

(a)a penalty which is not more than $1 000 and not less than —

(i)in the case of a first offence, $100;

(ii)in the case of a second offence, $200; and

(iii)in the case of a third or subsequent offence, $500; and

(b)if that offence is a continuing offence, a daily penalty which is not more than $100 and not less than $50

[Regulation 4 amended in Gazette 23 December 1988 p.4974.]

Notes

1. This is a compilation of the Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations and includes the amendments referred to in the following Table.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations	5 Feb 1971 p.366	5 Feb 1971
	23 Dec 1988 p.4974