New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
It shall be the duty of every Inspector charged with the investigation and control of infectious diseases to observe and comply with the following directions and requirements, namely:
(a) On becoming aware in any way of a case or suspected case of notifiable infectious disease in any premises, he shall, unless otherwise instructed by the Medical Officer of Health, forthwith visit those premises and inquire into the causes and circumstances of the case, and shall take such steps as are necessary or desirable to prevent the spread of infection and to remove conditions favourable to infection:
(b) He shall forthwith report to the Medical Officer of Health, in such form as the Director-General may require, the results of his investigation into any case or suspected case of infectious disease:
(c) Unless otherwise instructed by the Medical Officer of Health, he shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that any person suffering from a notifiable infectious disease who is being nursed or treated at home is effectively isolated, and, if in his opinion removal to hospital is desirable, he shall notify the Medical Officer of Health accordingly:
(d) He shall forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health if he has reason to believe or suspect that any person, whether suffering from an infectious disease or not, is likely to cause the spread of an infectious disease:
(e) He shall attend to the removal to hospital of any person suffering from a notifiable infectious disease if and when such removal is necessary:
(f) Where the patient is nursed at home, he shall, unless otherwise instructed by the Medical Officer of Health, visit the premises concerned from time to time and shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that precautions necessary to prevent the spread of infection are duly observed:
(g) He shall ascertain whether any inmate of the house wherein a case of infectious disease occurs attends any school as a pupil; and, if so, he shall forthwith instruct the parent or other person in charge of the pupil not to permit him to return to the school until the appropriate period of exclusion, if any, set out in Schedule 2 hereto has been completed, and he shall inform the head teacher or person in charge of the school of the occurrence:
(h) He shall ascertain whether any inmate of the house wherein a case of infectious disease occurs attends any school as a teacher; and, if so, he shall forthwith instruct the teacher not to return to the school until the appropriate period of exclusion, if any, set out in Schedule 2 hereto has been completed, and he shall inform the head teacher or person in charge of the school of the occurrence:
(i) He shall carry out any work which he is authorised to do under section 81 or section 82 of the Act:
(j) He shall carry out disinfection to the extent that it is indicated in respect of the disease in the tenth edition of the publication entitled Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, published in the year 1965, by the American Public Health Association Inc, unless otherwise instructed by the Medical Officer of Health:
(k) He shall from day to day keep such particulars in writing regarding cases of infectious diseases as may be required by the Medical Officer of Health:
(l) He shall from time to time, at the request of the Medical Officer of Health, produce records for inspection and shall supply such information as may be required with regard to his duties under these regulations:
(m) Generally, he shall be guided by the Medical Officer of Health and shall carry out the instructions of the Medical Officer of Health concerning any measures which may lawfully be taken to prevent the outbreak or to check the spread of infectious disease.