Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1997 (NO. 69 OF 1997) - SECT 121

121. (1) While an emergency declaration is in force, an authorised person may, for the purposes of section 120, using such reasonable force and assistance as is necessary—

        (a)     enter, using such reasonable force and assistance as is necessary, any place to—

              (i)     save any person's life;

              (ii)     prevent injury to any person; or

              (iii)     rescue any endangered person;

        (b)     prevent access to any place;

        (c)     close to pedestrian or vehicular traffic any roadway, path or any other thoroughfare; or

        (d)     remove from a place any person obstructing the authorised person in the exercise of a power under this section.

(2) The Chief Health Officer may, by writing, authorise a person, or a person of a specified class, for the purposes of this section.

(3) An authorised person who enters a place pursuant to subsection (1) is not entitled to remain in that place if, on request by the occupier, the person does not produce—

        (a)     in the case of the Chief Health Officer—his or her identity card;

        (b)     in the case of a Public Health Officer—his or her identity card and authorisation under subsection 14 (2);

        (c)     in the case of an ambulance officer— proof of identification of a kind approved for general purposes by the Chief Executive of the administrative unit in which the officer is employed;

        (d)     in the case of a police officer—proof of identification of a kind approved for general purposes by the Commissioner of Police; or

        (e)     in the case of a person authorised under subsection (2) of this section—the authorisation, or, in the case of a class authorisation, a copy of the authorisation.

(4) In this section—