Duty to notify Registrar of reportable diseases
Open ↗6.—(1) Where a person is diagnosed with or undergoes treatment for a reportable disease at a healthcare institution, the manager of the healthcare institution must, in the form and within the time prescribed, notify the Registrar of that fact.
(2) Any manager of a healthcare institution who —(a)
without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (1); or
(b)
in compliance or purported compliance with subsection (1), furnishes as true information which the manager knows or has reason to believe to be false,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(3) A certificate under the hand of the Registrar stating that a notification required under subsection (1) has not been furnished or is incorrect is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
Collection of information
Open ↗7.—(1) Upon a notification being made to the Registrar under section 6, the Registrar or an authorised Registry officer may require the manager of the healthcare institution who made the notification to provide any additional information that may be prescribed concerning the person to whom the notification relates.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the Registrar or an authorised Registry officer may require the manager of the healthcare institution —(a)
to furnish the prescribed additional information to any Registry officer or agent of the Registry; or
(b)
to produce to the Registrar or any Registry officer or agent of the Registry for inspection any medical record, book or document which contains or may contain the prescribed additional information.
(3) Any manager of a healthcare institution who —(a)
without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the requirement of the Registrar or an authorised Registry officer under this section; or
(b)
in compliance or purported compliance with this section, furnishes as true information which the manager knows or has reason to believe to be false,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(4) A certificate under the hand of the Registrar stating that the additional information required under subsection (1) has not been furnished or is incorrect is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
