Acts and Regulations

P-22.4 - Public Health Act

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Duty to report refusal or neglect of treatment
2017, c.42, s.37
32A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner shall report to a medical officer of health, in accordance with the regulations, if a person who is under the care and treatment of the medical practitioner or the nurse practitioner in respect of a Group I notifiable disease refuses or neglects to continue the treatment in a manner and to a degree satisfactory to the medical practitioner or the nurse practitioner, as the case may be.
2017, c.42, s.38
Duty of medical practitioner to report refusal or neglect of treatment
32A medical practitioner shall report to a medical officer of health, in accordance with the regulations, the name and residence address of a person who is under the care and treatment of the medical practitioner in respect of a Group I communicable disease and who refuses or neglects to continue the treatment in a manner and to a degree satisfactory to the medical practitioner.