Singapore legislation
Section 7
Section 7
Public health surveillance programmes, etc.
(1)
The Director may, from time to time, institute public health surveillance programmes or undertake epidemiological investigations or surveys of people, animals or vectors in order to determine the existence, prevalence or incidence, or to determine the likelihood of a possible outbreak, of —
any infectious disease; or
any other disease which the appropriate Minister, by notification in the Gazette, declares to be a disease to which this section applies.
(2)
For the purpose of any public health surveillance programme, epidemiological investigation or survey under subsection (1), the Director may require any person —
to provide the Director, within or at the times and in the form or manner the Director specifies, with any of the following where the Director requires:
any information (known to the person at those times);
any sample of any substance or matter in the possession or control of that person at those times, whether obtained under this Act or otherwise; and
to submit to a medical examination at the times the Director specifies.
(3)
If a person who is required by the Director under subsection (2) to furnish the Director with any information or sample, or to submit to any medical examination, fails to do so, without reasonable excuse, the person shall be guilty of an offence.
(4)
The Director may send any sample obtained under subsection (2)(a)(ii) for such test, examination or analysis as the Director may consider necessary or expedient.