(1) Every Medical Practitioner who has reason to believe that any person professionally attended by him or her is suffering from a notifiable disease shall forthwith inform the occupier of the premises and every person necessary or in immediate attendance on the patient of the infectuous nature of the disease and the precautions to be taken and forthwith give notice in the prescribed form to the medical officer of health.
(2) Where in any hospital any person is found by any doctor employed or engaged or attached (whether in an honorary capacity or otherwise) thereto to be suffering from, or is suspected to be suffering from, a notifiable disease, the Senior Medical Officer in charge of the hospital shall forthwith give notice in the prescribed form to the medical officer of health.
(3) Every Medical Practitioner who by post-mortem examination or other wise becomes aware or suspects that any deceased person was affected with a notifiable disease shall forthwith give notice in the prescribed form to the medical officer of health.
(4) When any person on board a ship in territorial waters is suffering from any sickness of which the signs and symptoms create a reasonable suspicion that it is a notifiable disease it shall be the duty of the Master of the ship to notify the medical officer of health of the existence in accordance with the Quarantine Act. (Amended by S.I. 19/2020)