Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 236

236 Further information may be required

(1) This section applies if the chief executive or contractor considers further information is required in relation to a notification about cancer to ensure the accuracy, completeness or integrity of the register.

(2) The chief executive or contractor may give any of the following persons a notice requiring the person to give the further information stated in the notice to the chief executive or contractor within the reasonable time stated in the notice—

(a) the person who gave the notification;

(b) the doctor mentioned in the notification as the doctor who referred the specimen for pathological examination;

(c) another doctor who has information that may ensure the accuracy, completeness or integrity of the register.

(3) The notice must warn the person that failure to comply with the notice is an offence under this Act.

(4) A person given a notice under subsection (2) must comply with the notice.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(5) A person who gives information requested under this section who would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the information given under an Act, oath, rule of law or practice—

(a) does not contravene the Act , oath, rule of law or practice by giving the information; and

(b) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the information.

Note—

See for example the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 , section 142 .

(6) Also, merely because the person gives the information, the person can not be held to have—

(a) breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or

(b) departed from accepted standards of professional conduct.