Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) The Chief Health
Officer may, in writing, request any of the following persons to cause the
information specified in the request to be provided to the Chief Health
Officer —
(a) a
person who has a duty to give notice under regulation 5;
(b) a
dentist;
(c) any
other person who, in the opinion of the Chief Health Officer, has information
about a person who has suffered an episode of acute rheumatic fever or has
rheumatic heart disease.
(2) The Chief Health
Officer may not request information under subregulation (1)
unless —
(a) the
information is about a person about whom notice has already been given under
regulation 6; and
(b) the
Chief Health Officer is satisfied that collecting the information is
consistent with achieving the objects of Part IXA of the Act.
(3) A person who
receives a request under this regulation must comply with the request within
14 days after receiving it.
Penalty: a fine of $1 000, but the minimum
penalty —
(a) for
a first offence, is a fine of $100;
(b) for
a second offence, is a fine of $200;
(c) for
a subsequence offence, is a fine of $500.
(4) It is a defence to
a charge under subregulation (3) to prove that the person did not have
the information requested at the time that the request was made.
[Regulation 12 amended: Gazette 10 Jan 2017
p. 278.]