Western Australian Current Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 10G

10G .         Chief Health Officer may request further information

        (1)         This regulation applies if the Chief Health Officer directs a person to give a report to the Chief Health Officer under regulation 10C(1).

        (2)         The Chief Health Officer may, when giving the direction or at a later time, request the person to give to the Chief Health Officer further information necessary to assist in preventing, controlling or abating a public health risk that might foreseeably arise from a child or children in respect of whom the report is given not being immunised against a vaccine preventable notifiable infectious disease.

        (3)         Information requested under subregulation (2) may, without limitation, include —

            (a)         the name or names, and other identifying information, of a child who has not, or children who have not, been immunised against a vaccine preventable notifiable infectious disease; and

            (b)         the name and contact details of the responsible person for the child or children.

        (4)         A person who receives a request under subregulation (2) must comply with the request.

        Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of $1 000.

        [Regulation 10G inserted: Gazette 7 Dec 2018 p. 4666; amended: Gazette 19 Jul 2019 p. 2854.]