AustLII Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1997 - SECT 42

42. Directions of Director

      (1) The Director, by notice served on a person who the Director is aware or suspects on reasonable grounds has a notifiable disease, may require the person to comply with any one or more of the following directions:

(a) that the person be isolated in any place the Director determines;

(b) that the person be placed in quarantine in any place the Director determines;

(c) that the person be placed under the supervision of a specified person;

(d) that the person submit to further medical examination, medical testing, medical treatment or counselling;

(e) that the person disclose to a specified person the name and address of any other person with whom contact by that person may result or may have resulted in the transmission of the disease;

(f) that the person refrain from performing any specified work;

(g) that the person do anything or refrain from doing anything the Director determines.

      (2) A person must comply with a direction under subsection (1).

Penalty:

Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.



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