Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 117

117 .         Effect of public health orders

        (1)         A public health order may require the person to whom it applies to do one or more of these —

            (a)         to refrain from specified conduct, either absolutely or unless specified conditions are satisfied;

            (b)         to refrain from carrying out specified activities (for example, without limitation, employment, use of public transport or participation in certain events), either absolutely or unless specified conditions are satisfied;

            (c)         to undergo counselling by a specified person or one or more persons within a specified class of persons;

            (d)         to refrain from visiting a specified place, or a place within a specified class of places, either absolutely or unless specified conditions are satisfied;

            (e)         to refrain from associating with specified persons or specified classes of persons, either absolutely or unless specified conditions are satisfied;

            (f)         to submit to specified supervision;

            (g)         to undergo a specified medical examination, or specified medical treatment, at a specified time and place;

            (h)         to take specified action to prevent or minimise the public health risk posed by the person;

                  (i)         to reside at a specified place and, if considered to be appropriate by the Chief Health Officer, to remain isolated at that place;

            (j)         to submit to being detained at a specified place for the purpose of undergoing a medical examination or medical treatment;

            (k)         to submit to being detained or isolated, or detained and isolated, at a specified place.

        (2)         A public health order that requires a person to undergo a medical examination authorises —

            (a)         the carrying out of that medical examination in accordance with the order; and

            (b)         the testing of any sample obtained or taken in connection with that medical examination.

        (3)         A public health order that requires a person to undergo medical treatment authorises —

            (a)         the giving of medical treatment to that person in accordance with the order; and

            (b)         the testing of any sample obtained or taken in connection with that medical treatment.

        (4)         Subsections (2) and (3) do not limit what a person can do for the purposes of, or in connection with, the enforcement or administration of a public health order.