8. Medical examination and treatment

Terms defined in s 2

• Director-General

  Director-General

  Defined · s 2

  “Director-General” means the Director‑General of Public Health appointed under section 3(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987;

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• infectious disease

  infectious disease

  Defined · s 2

  “infectious disease” means —(a)any of the diseases specified in the First Schedule; and(b)for the purposes of sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17A, 19, 55, 57A and 59A, includes any other disease —(i)that is caused or is suspected to be caused by a micro‑organism or any agent of disease;(ii)that is capable or is suspected to be capable of transmission by any means to human beings; and(iii)that, the Director has reason to believe, if left uninvestigated or unchecked, is likely to result in an epidemic of the disease;

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• medical examination

  medical examination

  Defined · s 2

  “medical examination” includes the carrying out by a person (called the examiner) of any of the measures mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f), with a view to ascertaining a person’s state of health, whether or not the examiner is present with the person being examined:(a)physical examination of the person;(b)obtaining the person’s bodily samples;(c)obtaining images of, or measuring, the person’s physiology;(d)measuring or monitoring the person’s physiological signs;(e)obtaining the clinical history of the person;(f)a measure to facilitate the carrying out of anything in paragraphs (a) to (e);

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