HEALTH ACT 1911
Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations
Western Australia
Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations
Contents
1.Citation1
2. Inspection of person with infectious disease1
3. Power to enter premises and remove person2
4. Offences2
Notes
Compilation table3
Western Australia
HEALTH ACT 1911
Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations
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.
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.]
1. This is a compilation of the Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations and includes the amendments referred to in the following Table.
Citation |
Gazettal |
Commencement |
Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons) Regulations |
5 Feb 1971 p.366 |
5 Feb 1971 |
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23 Dec 1988 p.4974 |
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These regulations were repealed by the Health (Infectious Diseases (Inspection of Persons)) Repeal Regulations 2002 r. 2 as at 13 Aug 2002 (see Gazette 13 Aug 2002 p. 4172) |
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