Public Health Legislation: Promoting Public Health, preventing ill health and managing communicable diseases

Public Health Legislation: Discussion Paper
Promoting Public Health, preventing ill health and managing communicable diseases

Date of publication: November 2002

Note: Submissions have now closed. Submissions were due by 28 March 2003. View current consultation documents.

The present Health Act 1956 is now out of date, does not effectively address health issues of importance today, and does not adequately reflect human rights values. A Public Health Bill to replace the Health Act 1956 and associated legislation is therefore being developed.

The Ministry of Health has produced this discussion paper to focus on a range of important issues to be covered in the new Public Health Bill. These issues include health information, notification, public health promotion, immunisation, screening, the management of people whose communicable disease poses risks to others, contact tracing, and border health protection.

Submissions on this discussion document closed on 28 March 2003.

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