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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2011 - SECT 6

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2011 - SECT 6

6—Precautionary principle

        (1)         If there is a perceived material risk to public health, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent, control or abate that risk.

        (2)         In the application of this principle, decision-making and action should be proportionate to the degree of public health risk and should be guided by—

            (a)         a careful evaluation of what steps need to be taken to avoid, where practicable, serious harm to public health; and

            (b)         an assessment of the risk-weighted consequences of options; and

            (c)         an aim to ensure minimum disruption to an individual's activities, a community's functioning and commercial activity consistent with providing any necessary protection from identified public health risks.