Public Health Act 2016.

The Act is organized in 20 Parts The objects of this Act are (a) to promote and improve public health and wellbeing and to prevent disease, injury, disability and premature death; and (b) to protect individuals and communities from diseases and other public health risks and to provide, to the extent reasonably practicable, a healthy environment for all Western Australians; and (c) to promote the provision of information to individuals and communities about public health risks; and (d) to encourage individuals and communities to plan for, create and maintain a healthy environment; and (e) to provide for the prevention or early detection of diseases and other public health risks, and certain other conditions of health; and (f) to support programmes and campaigns intended to improve public health; and (g) to facilitate the provision of information to decision-making authorities about public health risks and benefits to public health that may result from certain proposals; and (h) to provide for the collection, disclosure and use of information about the incidence and prevalence of diseases and other public health risks in the State, and certain other conditions of health, for research or public health purposes; and (i) to reduce the inequalities in public health of disadvantaged communities; and (j) to provide for functions relating to public health to be performed by the State and local governments.
Part 2 regulates the administration, identifying functions for Chief health Officer, for Local Governments. Part 3 establishes a General public health duty ruling that a person must take all reasonable and practicable steps to prevent or minimise any harm to public health that might foreseeably result from anything done or omitted to be done by the person. Part 4 concerns serious public health risks and material public health risks and regulate offences. Part 9 provides disciple for notifiable infectious diseases and related conditions. Part 11 considers serious public health incident powers.