South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where a
medical practitioner or person of a class prescribed by regulation suspects
that a person is suffering from or has died from a notifiable disease, the
medical practitioner or person of a prescribed class—
(a)
shall as soon as practicable and, in any event, within three days of forming
that suspicion, report the case to the Department; and
(b)
shall furnish the Department with such further information as the Department
may require.
Penalty: Division 7 fine.
Expiation fee: Division 8 fee.
(2) A report under
subsection (1)—
(a) must
be made in a manner and form determined by the Department; and
(b) must
be accompanied by the required information.
(3) On the receipt of
a report under subsection (1) that relates to a person in a local
government area, the Department must, where there is an immediate threat to
public health in the area, immediately communicate the contents of the report
to the local council for the area.
(4) A
medical practitioner (other than a person of a class prescribed by regulation)
who suspects that a person is suffering from a notifiable disease is not
required to make a report under subsection (1) with respect to that case
if the practitioner knows or reasonably believes that a report has already
been made to the Department by another medical practitioner who is or who has
been responsible for the treatment of that person.
(5) A
medical practitioner or person of a class prescribed by regulation who makes a
report to the Department in accordance with this section is, subject to any
prescribed exception, entitled to be paid the prescribed fee.
(6) No civil liability
arises from a statement made honestly and without malice in a report under
this section.