New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

8 Isolation of patients

• No person suffering or having suffered from any infectious disease for which a period of isolation is shown in the second column of Schedule 2 hereto shall, during that period of isolation, wilfully go outside the limits of the premises in which he resides, except with the permission of the Medical Officer of Health:

  Provided that where a person is suffering or has suffered from an infectious disease for which a period of isolation is shown in the third column of Schedule 2 hereto and—

  • (a) Microbiological examinations have not yet yielded a negative result within that period; or

  • (b) Microbiological examinations cannot conveniently be undertaken because the person is in a place remote from a laboratory,—

  the medical practitioner attending the patient shall notify the facts to the Medical Officer of Health, who may at any time after the expiration of that period of isolation allow the release of the patient from isolation under such conditions as he considers necessary to protect other persons from infection.