Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1997 (NO. 69 OF 1997) - SECT 107

Unauthorised assertions

107. (1) A person shall not make an assertion to a contact of a third person that the third person has a transmissible notifiable condition without the consent of the third person, unless authorised to do so under this Act.

Penalty:

        (a)     if the offender is a natural person—50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both;

        (b)     if the offender is a body corporate—250 penalty units.

(2) This section applies in relation to a person asserted to have a transmissible notifiable condition irrespective of the truth of the assertion.

(3) In this section—

“contact”, in relation to a person asserted to have a transmissible notifiable condition, means a person who would be a contact of the other person if the other person had that condition.



AustLII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback