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Prevention and Control of Disease (Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons) Regulation Part 2 Section 4 (2) If a specified medical practitioner attends a person in the course of professional practice and clinically suspects that the person has contracted the specified disease, the medical practitioner may, by written direction issued to the person, require the person to undergo a specified test.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a specified medical practitioner clinically suspects that a person has contracted the specified disease if the medical practitioner, having exercised a professional judgment on the basis of the signs or symptoms that the person shows, suspects that the person has contracted that disease.

(4) A compulsory testing direction—
 * (a) may require the person to submit, in the way specified in the direction, the result of a specified test that the person is required to undergo under the direction; and
 * (b) may include a statement to the effect that if the person has previously undergone, within a preceding period specified in the direction, a specified test that meets the conditions specified in the direction (regardless of whether or not the test was conducted for complying with the Ordinance), the test is taken to be a specified test that the person has undergone in compliance with the requirement under the direction.

(5) A compulsory testing direction issued by a specified medical practitioner may only be revoked or varied by that medical practitioner.