South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts30A—Employment of diseased persons in handling drugs
(1) No person who is
suffering from any infectious or loathsome disease, or who for any other
reason is likely to contaminate any drug shall—
(a)
handle any drug which is being sold or which is being offered, exposed, kept,
stored, carried, delivered, or produced for sale; or
(b) be
employed in connection with the sale or the offering, exposing, keeping,
storing, carrying, delivering, or producing for sale of any drug.
Penalty: Not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(2) If any health
surveyor suspects that any person is committing a breach of
subsection (1) the health surveyor may by notice in writing under his
hand notify that person of his suspicion.
(3) No person who has
received such a notice shall thereafter—
(a)
handle any drug which is being sold or which is being offered, exposed, kept,
stored, carried, delivered, or produced for sale;
(b) be
employed in connection with the sale or the offering, exposing, keeping,
storing, carrying, delivering, or producing for sale of any drug,
until he has produced to the health surveyor a certificate signed by a legally
qualified medical practitioner that he is not suffering from any infectious,
contagious, or loathsome disease, and is not for any other reason likely to
contaminate any drug.
Penalty: Not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(4) In this
section—
"infectious disease" means a controlled notifiable disease under the
Public and Environmental Health Act 1987 ;
"loathsome disease" means a disease proclaimed by the Governor as a
loathsome disease.