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(2) If pursuant to paragraph (1), the employer or principal collects information that an employee of the employer or a worker of the principal—

(a) is partially vaccinated against COVID-19 infection, the employer or principal must also collect, record and hold information about whether that employee or worker (as the case may be) has a booking to receive a dose of an approved vaccine that will cause the employee or worker to become vaccinated against COVID-19 infection; or
(b) is unvaccinated against COVID-19 infection, the employer or principal must also collect, record and hold information about whether that employee or worker (as the case may be) has a booking to receive a dose of an approved vaccine that will cause the employee or worker to become partially vaccinated against COVID-19 infection.

(3) An employer or a principal must comply with the obligations in paragraphs (1) and (2) as soon as reasonably practicable, but paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply if the employer or principal already holds vaccination information about an employee or a worker who is, or may be, required to work outside the employee’s or worker’s place of residence on or after 1 January 2022.

(4) Nothing in this regulation entitles or authorises an employer or a principal to collect, use or disclose vaccination information about an employee or a worker for purposes other than ensuring compliance with regulation 10, 11 or 12.

PART 4
WORKPLACE SAFE MANAGEMENT MEASURES

Division 1—Employees’ and workers’ duties

Notice to employer or principal of becoming diagnosed person

16.—(1) An employee, or a worker of a principal, who becomes a diagnosed person must take all reasonably practical steps to notify, without delay after becoming aware that he or she is a diagnosed person, his or her employer or the principal (as the case may be) of