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Infectious Diseases Act 1976 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Control of Infectious Diseases Within Singapore

10. Director-General of Health may require information from healthcare professionals, etc.

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2024. 5 amendments in all.

(1)

The Director-General of Health may, for the purpose of investigating into any outbreak or suspected outbreak of an infectious disease, preventing the spread or possible outbreak of an infectious disease, or treating any person who is, or is suspected to be, a case or an at-risk individual of an infectious disease —

(a)

require any healthcare professional to obtain from his or her patient such information as the Director-General of Health may reasonably require for that purpose and transmit that information to the Director-General of Health; and

(b)

prescribe by order any general or specific measures or procedures for that purpose for compliance by any healthcare professional or holder of a licence granted under the Healthcare Services Act 2020.

(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 healthcare professional who fails to provide the healthcare professional or a person acting on behalf of the healthcare professional with any information sought from the patient that is within the patient’s knowledge pursuant to a requirement under subsection (1)(a) shall be guilty of an offence.

(4)

A healthcare professional must comply with a requirement under subsection (1)(a) to transmit information to the Director-General of Health despite any restriction on the disclosure of information imposed by any written law, rule of law, rule of professional conduct or contract; and the healthcare professional is not by so doing treated as being in breach of any such restriction despite anything to the contrary in that law, rule or contract.

(5)

In this section —[Deleted by Act 13 of 2024 wef 09/04/2024]

“healthcare professional” means —

(a)

a medical practitioner;

(b)

a dentist registered under the Dental Registration Act 1999;

(c)

a registered nurse or an enrolled nurse, or a registered midwife, within the meaning of the Nurses and Midwives Act 1999;

(d)

a pharmacist registered under the Pharmacists Registration Act 2007;

(e)

a person registered under section 14 of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Act 2000 for the carrying out of any practice of traditional Chinese medicine prescribed under that Act; or

(f)

any other person providing any other healthcare service in Singapore.