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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 132

132 .         Terms used

                In this Division —

        affected person

            (a)         means a person who has, or who is reasonably believed to have, a notifiable infectious disease; and

            (b)         includes a deceased person who had, or who is reasonably believed to have had, a notifiable infectious disease at the time of his or her death;

        child means a person who is under 18 years of age;

        contact person

            (a)         in relation to an affected person, means —

                  (i)         a person (including a deceased person) who was, or who may have been, a source of the affected person’s notifiable infectious disease; or

                  (ii)         a person (including a deceased person) who has been, or who may have been, exposed to a notifiable infectious disease by the affected person;

            (b)         in relation to an exposed person, means —

                  (i)         a person (including a deceased person) who exposed, or who may have exposed, the exposed person to a notifiable infectious disease; or

                  (ii)         a person (including a deceased person) who has been, or who may have been, exposed to a notifiable infectious disease by the exposed person;

        exposed person

            (a)         means a person who has been, or who may have been, exposed to a notifiable infectious disease; and

            (b)         includes a deceased person who, before his or her death, was or may have been exposed to a notifiable infectious disease;

        relative

            (a)         in relation to an affected person or an exposed person, means a person who is —

                  (i)         related, by blood or marriage, to the affected person or exposed person; or

                  (ii)         the affected person’s or exposed person’s de facto partner;

                and

            (b)         in relation to an affected person or exposed person who is deceased, includes a person who, immediately before the affected person’s or exposed person’s death, was a person referred to in paragraph (a)(i) or (ii);

        required information means the information required by section 133(1) or 134(1), as the case requires.



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