Malaysia legislation
Section 22
Section 22
(1)
If a patient found by a Health Officer or registered medical practitioner to be suffering from a notifiable disease gives to such Health Officer information as to a person
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from whom the patient suspects that disease was contracted, such information shall be deemed, for the purposes of the law relating to defamation to have been communicated in pursuance of a statutory duty.
(2)
If, in furnishing any information as is mentioned in the preceding subsection, any person makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence.
Power to inspect premises and persons.