PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 39B Advice to Category 2, 3 or 4 contacts

PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 39B

39B Advice to Category 2, 3 or 4 contacts

(1) The Secretary or an attending medical practitioner--

(a) may notify a person who the Secretary or attending medical practitioner believes may have been in contact with a person suffering from a Category 2, 3 or 4 condition of measures to be taken, and activities to be avoided, in order to minimise the danger of the first person contracting the condition or passing it to a third person, or

(b) may authorise a relevant health practitioner to so notify the person.

(2) A notification under subclause (1) must be in accordance with the directions (if any) of the Chief Health Officer published on the website of the Ministry of Health.

(3) In this clause--


"attending medical practitioner" means a registered medical practitioner who attends the person suffering from a Category 2, 3 or 4 condition.


"relevant health practitioner" means a natural person who provides any of the following services (whether as public or private services)--

(a) medical, hospital, nursing or midwifery services,

(b) community health services,

(c) health education services,

(d) welfare services necessary to implement any services referred to in paragraphs (a)-(c).