Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 108A

108A Disclosure for contact tracing purposes

(1) Section 105 (1) does not apply if the disclosure of the confidential information by a relevant person is to a provider for the purpose of contacting another person (the
"traced person" ) who has, or may have, contracted a notifiable condition, to—

(a) provide the traced person with information to prevent or minimise transmission of the notifiable condition; or

(b) enable the traced person to seek medical examination or treatment.

(2) In this section—

"health practitioner" means a person who carries on, and is entitled to carry on, an occupation involving the provision of care for another person’s physical or mental health or wellbeing.

Examples of a health practitioner—

• a doctor

• a psychologist

• a social worker

• a registered nurse

"provider" , in relation to a person, means any of the following—

(a) a health practitioner involved in the treatment or care of the person or a health practitioner nominated by the person;

(b) if the person is a child—the person’s parent or a person exercising parental responsibility for the child, including a person who, under Aboriginal tradition or Island custom, is regarded as the parent of the child;

(c) the person’s legal guardian;

(d) an entity from another jurisdiction that is responsible for preventing or controlling the spread of communicable diseases in that jurisdiction;

(e) another entity prescribed under a regulation.