After section 187 of the Principal Act , the following section is inserted in Division 8:

187A.     Quarantined, &c., persons to be permitted to communicate with certain persons

(1)  The Secretary of the Department must ensure that a person who is quarantined, placed in isolation, or required to stay in a particular place, under a direction or order given in accordance with this Act –

(a) is given reasonable opportunities to contact and confer with an Australian legal practitioner, or a medical practitioner, of the person's own choosing; and

(b) receives any communications made to the person by an Australian legal practitioner or a medical practitioner.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) , the Secretary of the Department may limit contact, conferral and communication to or by a person who has a notifiable disease to such means as are necessary to ensure that the notifiable disease is not transmitted by the person to another person.