(1) This regulation applies if the person in charge of a laboratory service has notified the Secretary of notification details for a notifiable micro-organism in accordance with section 130(2) of the Act.
(2) For the purposes of sub-typing, the Secretary may request that the person in charge of the laboratory service forward any of the following to a Public Health Laboratory—
(a) an isolate of the notifiable micro-organism obtained by the laboratory service;
(b) the notification details that have been provided to the Secretary for that notification;
(c) a sample of the original material from which the laboratory service isolated or detected the notifiable micro-organism.