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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 (NO. 18 OF 2016) - SECT 150

150 .         Regulations for this Part

        (1)         Without limiting section 304(1), regulations may be made under that subsection for the purpose of achieving the objects of this Part.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may —

            (a)         prescribe conditions of health to which this Part applies;

            (b)         prescribe how, when, by whom, and to whom, cases of prescribed conditions of health must be notified;

            (c)         provide for the establishment and maintenance of registers for the purposes of recording information notified or provided under this Part, and (without limitation) —

                  (i)         regulate, restrict or prohibit access to, and the release of information from, those registers;

                  (ii)         provide for the removal of information from those registers;

            (d)         prescribe functions, powers, and duties of any person or class of person, whether the Minister, the Chief Health Officer, a medical practitioner, a person having any prescribed condition of health or any other person or class of person.

        (3)         A regulation made under subsection (2)(d) is limited to prescribing the functions, powers and duties necessary to achieve the objects of this Part, and cannot require any person to submit to treatment without the person’s consent.



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