Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH AMENDMENT REGULATION 2017 (NO 1) (NO 36 OF 2017) - REG 15

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    (7)     In this section:

"registrable information "means the following information about a woman and her cervical smear or cervical tissue:

        (a)     her full name and any previous name;

        (b)     her date of birth;

        (c)     whether she is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person;

        (d)     her postal address;

        (e)     the date the smear or tissue was taken;

        (f)     the identification code of the laboratory that examined the smear or tissue;

        (g)     the identification code of the health practitioner who took the smear or tissue;

        (h)     her test results;

              (i)     for a smear with abnormal test results—

              (i)     the period of time (if any) within which the laboratory that examined the smear has advised the health practitioner who took the smear to take another smear; or

              (ii)     the details of other management recommendations (that is, coloscopy plus biopsy).

"screening"—see the National Cancer Screening Register Act 2016

(Cwlth), section 4.