New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 27

27 Conditions applicable if person detained

(1) A person detained under the authority of a public health order may be so detained subject to such conditions with respect to the person’s security as the medical practitioner making the order considers necessary in the interests of the health of the public and specifies in the order.

(2) A person detained under the authority of a public health order may, for any special reason accepted by an authorised medical practitioner, be permitted to leave the place of detention, but only under the constant personal supervision of a person, or any one of a number of persons, nominated by the medical practitioner.

(3) A person who is detained under a public health order and:

(a) is in breach of a condition specified in the order, or

(b) evades supervision to which he or she is subject under this section,

is to be taken to have contravened the public health order.