Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Section 105(1) does not apply if the disclosure of the confidential information by a relevant person is to a provider for the purpose of contacting another person (the traced person) who has, or may have, contracted a notifiable condition, to—
(a) provide the traced person with information to prevent or minimise transmission of the notifiable condition; or
(b) enable the traced person to seek medical examination or treatment.
(2) In this section—
health practitioner means a person who carries on, and is entitled to carry on, an occupation involving the provision of care for another person's physical or mental health or wellbeing.
Examples of a health practitioner—
a doctor
a psychologist
a social worker
a registered nurse
provider, in relation to a person, means any of the following—
(a) a health practitioner involved in the treatment or care of the person or a health practitioner nominated by the person;
(b) if the person is a child—the person's parent or a person exercising parental responsibility for the child, including a person who, under Aboriginal tradition or Island custom, is regarded as the parent of the child;
(c) the person's legal guardian;
(d) an entity from another jurisdiction that is responsible for preventing or controlling the spread of communicable diseases in that jurisdiction;
(e) another entity prescribed under a regulation.