(1)  The Director –

(a) may provide a council with a report on the presence or occurrence of –

(i) any notifiable disease within its municipal area; and

(ii) any notifiable contaminant in food or water within its municipal area; and

(b) is to inform the council of any threat to public health as a consequence of that presence or occurrence.

(2)  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .