Singapore legislation
Clause 4
Clause 4
Repeal and re-enactment of sections 9 and 10
Sections 9 and 10 of the principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted therefor:“Post-mortem examination
9. Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may order a post-mortem examination of the body of that person for the purpose of —
determining the cause or circumstances of the death of that person; or
investigating into any outbreak or suspected outbreak of, or preventing the spread of, that disease.Director may require information from medical practitioners, etc.10.—
The Director may, for the purpose of investigating into any outbreak or suspected outbreak of an infectious disease, preventing the spread of an infectious disease, or treating any person who is, or is suspected to be, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease —
require any medical practitioner to obtain from his patient such information as the Director may reasonably require for that purpose and transmit such information to the Director; and
with the approval of the Minister, prescribe by order any general or specific measures or procedures for that purpose for compliance by any medical practitioner, hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment. (2) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement or an order referred to in subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.(3) A patient of a medical practitioner who fails to provide the medical practitioner or a person acting on his behalf with any information sought from the patient pursuant to a requirement under subsection (1)(a) that is within the patient’s knowledge shall be guilty of an offence.(4) A medical practitioner shall comply with a requirement under subsection (1)(a) to transmit information to the Director notwithstanding any restriction on the disclosure of information imposed by any written law, rule of law, rule of professional conduct or contract; and he shall not by so doing be treated as being in breach of any such restriction notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that law, rule or contract.(5) In this section, “clinical laboratory”, “healthcare establishment” and “medical clinic” have the same meanings as in the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act (Cap. 248).”.