Cap. 465 Art. 31Notification of disease and contaminants.

(1) Any medical practitioner who treats or examines any person for a notifiable disease shall report such notifiable disease to the Superintendent on the prescribed certificate.

(2) The person in charge of a laboratory that receives a primary specimen or sample that yields a positive result indicating that the patient who supplied the specimen is suffering from a notifiable disease shall report such findings to the Superintendent within such time and in such manner as the Superintendent may direct.

(3) The reports that are to be made in terms of subarticles (1) and (2) shall not require the consent of the person being treated or examined.

(4) The Superintendent may require any person to notify him of the presence or occurrence of any of the following:

(a) any notifiable disease or suspicion thereof;

(b) any human pathogenic organisms or suspicion thereof;

(c) any contaminant or suspicion thereof.

(5) Any person who contravenes any requirement of this article shall be guilty of an offence.