Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 101

101 Power to require business contact information

(1) This section applies if a contact tracing officer—

(a) reasonably suspects that a person may have contracted a notifiable condition while receiving or providing goods or services from or to a business; and

(b) has explained to an owner of the business, or the person apparently in charge of the business, that information is needed to prevent or minimise the spread of the notifiable condition.

(2) The contact tracing officer may ask the owner or person apparently in charge to give the contact tracing officer all or any of the following information (the
"business contact information" ) within a stated reasonable time—

(a) the owner’s or person’s name and residential address or another address where the owner or person may be contacted;

(b) the name, address, whereabouts and telephone number of any person who received or provided goods or services from or to the business within a stated period;

(c) information about the circumstances in which a person who received or provided goods or services from or to the business may have been exposed to the notifiable condition or may have exposed another person to the notifiable condition.

(3) The contact tracing officer may ask the owner or person apparently in charge to give the contact tracing officer evidence of the correctness of the business contact information within a stated reasonable time if the contact tracing officer reasonably suspects the stated business contact information to be false.

(4) If a person fails to comply with a request under subsection (2) or (3) , the contact tracing officer may give the person a notice that—

(a) states the business contact information the person is required to provide; and

(b) states the business contact information is needed to attempt to prevent or minimise the spread of the notifiable condition; and

(c) requires the person to give the contact tracing officer the business contact information within a stated reasonable time; and

(d) warns the person it is an offence to fail to give the business contact information, unless the owner or person has a reasonable excuse; and

(e) tells the person the effect of section 102 (2) .

(5) A requirement under subsection (4) is a
"business contact information requirement" .

(6) A person asked or required by a contact tracing officer to give business contact information or evidence of the correctness of business contact information must not state anything to the officer that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(7) In this section—

"business" includes any organisation whether or not the organisation operates to make a profit.

Example—

a sporting club or charitable organisation