Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTION CONTROL FOR PERSONAL APPEARANCE SERVICES) ACT 2003 - SECT 20

20 How an obligation to minimise an infection risk may be discharged if there is a regulation or infection control guideline

(1) If a regulation prescribes a way of minimising an infection risk, a proprietor or operator may discharge the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation relating to the risk only by following the prescribed way.

(2) Subject to subsection (1) , if infection control guidelines made by the Minister state a way of minimising an infection risk, a business proprietor or operator may discharge the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation to minimise the risk only by—

(a) adopting and following the stated way; or

(b) adopting and following another way that minimises the infection risk.