Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 462

462 Notifiable conditions

(1) Section 70 applies to a doctor in relation to a clinical diagnosis notifiable condition or a provisional diagnosis notifiable condition if—

(a) the doctor was required to give a notice to the chief executive under the Health Act 1937, section 32A(1), about a notifiable disease to which the condition relates; and

(b) the doctor did not give the notice before the commencement day.

(2) Section 71 applies to a person in charge of a hospital in relation to a clinical diagnosis notifiable condition or a provisional diagnosis notifiable condition if—

(a) the person was required to give a notice to the chief executive under the Health Act 1937, section 32A(2)(b), about a notifiable disease to which the condition relates; and

(b) the person did not give the notice before the commencement day.

(3) Section 72 applies to a person who is the director of a pathology laboratory in relation to a specimen if—

(a) the person was required to give a notice to the chief executive under the Health Act 1937, section 32A(4), relating to the specimen; and

(b) the person did not give the notice before the commencement day.

(4) Section 75 applies as if a reference to a notice given under chapter 3, part 2, division 2 included a reference to a notice given under the Health Act 1937, section 32A.

(5) If, immediately before the commencement day, a person had not complied with a requirement under the Health Act 1937, section 32A(9), to give further information to the chief executive, the requirement is taken to have been made under section 75(2).

(6) In this section—

"commencement day" means—

(a) for subsection (1)—the day section 70 commences; or

(b) for subsection (2)—the day section 71 commences; or

(c) for subsection (3)—the day section 72 commences; or

(d) for subsection (5)—the day section 75 commences.