(1) This section applies if a contact tracing officer—
(a) reasonably
suspects that a person—
(i) has a notifiable condition; or
(ii) has been in
contact with a person who has, or may have, a notifiable condition; and
(b)
has explained to the person that information is needed to attempt to prevent
or minimise the spread of the notifiable condition.
(2) The contact tracing
officer may ask the person to give the contact tracing officer all or any of
the following information (the
"contact information" ) within a stated time—
(a) the person’s name and
residential address or another address where the person may be contacted;
(b)
the name, address, whereabouts and telephone number of any other person—
(i)
who may have transmitted the notifiable condition to the person; or
(ii) to
whom the person may have transmitted the notifiable condition;
(c)
information about the circumstances in which the person may have been exposed
to the notifiable condition or may have exposed another person to the
notifiable condition.
(3) The contact tracing officer may ask the person to
give the contact tracing officer evidence of the correctness of the
contact information, within a stated reasonable time, if the contact tracing
officer reasonably suspects the stated contact information to be false.
(4)
If the person fails to comply with a request under subsection (2) or (3) , the
contact tracing officer may give the person a notice that—
(b) states the
information is needed to attempt to prevent or minimise the spread of the
notifiable condition; and
(c) requires the person to give the contact tracing
officer the contact information within a stated reasonable time; and
(d)
warns the person it is an offence to fail to give the contact information,
unless the person has a reasonable excuse; and
(e) tells the person the
effect of section 100(2) .
(5) A requirement under subsection (4) is a
"contact information requirement" .
(6) A person asked or required by a
contact tracing officer to give contact information or evidence of the
correctness of contact information must not state anything to the officer that
the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty for subsection (6) —50 penalty units.
