Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts In this Act —
authorised officer has the meaning given in the
Public Health Act 2016 section 4(1);
CEO means the chief executive officer of the
department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration
of this Act;
Chief Health Officer has the meaning given in the
Public Health Act 2016 section 4(1);
commencement day means the day on which section 6
comes into operation;
contact tracing , in relation to an infectious
disease emergency, means the process of identifying, notifying, communicating
with, managing and directing —
(a)
individuals who —
(i)
may be, or may have been, a source of infection; or
(ii)
may have been in contact, directly or indirectly, with,
or in the proximity of, an individual who may be, or may have been, a source
of infection;
or
(b) the
parents, guardians or carers of, or other persons who have responsibility for
the care of, such individuals;
Department’s website means a website
maintained by or on behalf of the department of the Public Service principally
assisting in the administration of this Act;
entry registration information —
(a)
means relevant information about the presence of persons at a place, obtained,
on the occasion of their entry to the place, for the purposes of contact
tracing in relation to an infectious disease emergency by the use of the
mobile application known as “SafeWA”, or some other contact
tracing register or system, whether or not obtained under the
Emergency Management Act 2005 or the Public Health Act 2016 ; but
(b) does
not include —
(i)
such information obtained in the ordinary course of
carrying on a business or undertaking if the information would have been
obtained in any case for purposes other than contact tracing; or
(ii)
statistical or summary information;
entry registration record means any record of
entry registration information, including a record in the form of data, text,
images or sound;
Health Department means the department of the
Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the
Public Health Act 2016 ;
infectious disease emergency means —
(a) an
emergency situation or a state of emergency declared under the
Emergency Management Act 2005 in respect of an emergency relating to a plague
or epidemic (as referred to in paragraph (d) of the definition of hazard in
section 3 of that Act); or
(b) a
public health state of emergency declared under the Public Health Act 2016 in
respect of a public health emergency relating to an infectious disease; or
(c) a
serious public health risk, in respect of an infectious disease, in relation
to which an authorised officer is authorised under the Public Health Act 2016
section 152(1) to exercise serious public health incident powers; or
(d) if a
COVID-19 declaration is made under the Emergency Management Act 2005 Part 6A
(as that Part is in force before the coming into operation of the Emergency
Management Amendment (Temporary COVID-19 Provisions) Act 2022 section 30)
— the occurrence of COVID-19 in the area to which the declaration
applies while the declaration is in force;
initial storage period , for an entry registration
record, has the meaning given in section 8(1);
prescribed means prescribed by regulations made
under this Act;
records contractor means a person engaged under a
contract for services to provide services relating to the storage,
maintenance, processing or destruction of entry registration records;
relevant information means any of the following
—
(a) a
person’s name and contact details;
(b)
details of a person’s presence at a place, including —
(i)
the time and date at which the person entered the place;
and
(ii)
details of any persons accompanying the person;
(c) any
other information approved by the Minister for the purposes of this
definition;
responsible person , for an entry registration
record, means —
(a) for
a record in the possession or control of an agency as defined in the
Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1) — the chief executive
officer, as defined in that section, of that agency; or
(b) for
a record in the possession or control of a records contractor — the
records contractor; or
(c) for
any other record — the person in possession or control of the record;
serious public health incident powers has the
meaning given in the Public Health Act 2016 section 4(1);
statistical or summary information means
statistical or summary information that could not reasonably be expected to
lead to the identification of an individual;
use , in relation to information, includes the
following —
(a) to
possess the information;
(b) to
copy the information;
(c) to
control the use of the information;
(d) to
seize the information;
(e) to
require the production of the information.
[Section 3 amended: No. 33 of 2022 s. 17.]