New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 69

69 Chief executive officer to provide information

(1) A person who is providing professional care or treatment at a hospital and who has reasonable grounds for believing that:

(a) a patient at the hospital has a notifiable disease, or

(b) a person who was a patient at the hospital had a notifiable disease at any time during the person's stay in the hospital,

has a duty, and is authorised, to ensure that the chief executive officer of the hospital is aware of the matter.

(2) The chief executive officer of the hospital must provide the Director-General, in accordance with the regulations, with such information as may be prescribed by the regulations in relation to:

(a) a patient at the hospital who has a notifiable disease, or

(b) a person who was a patient at the hospital and who had a notifiable disease at any time during the person's stay in the hospital.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) The chief executive officer's obligation under subsection (2) arises immediately the chief executive officer is made aware, or otherwise has reasonable grounds for believing, that the patient (or person who was a patient) concerned has (or had) the disease.

(4) It is a defence to a prosecution under this section if the chief executive officer satisfies the court that he or she had reasonable cause to believe that the information concerned had been provided to the Director-General.

(5) Proceedings for an offence under this section may be commenced at any time within, but not later than, 2 years after the time at which the offence is alleged to have been committed.