New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 12

12 Provision of information

(1) A medical practitioner who believes on reasonable grounds that a person receiving attention from the medical practitioner suffers from a sexually transmissible medical condition must, as soon as practicable, provide the person with such information concerning the condition as is required by the regulations.

(2) A medical practitioner who fails to comply with this section is guilty of an offence unless the court is satisfied that the medical practitioner knew that the information to which the offence relates had been supplied to the patient by another medical practitioner.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.