Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (CERVICAL CYTOLOGY) REGULATIONS(AMENDMENT) (NO. 33 OF 1995) - REG 3

        (a)     by omitting the definition of “cervical material”; and

        (b)     by inserting the following definition:

“ ‘cervical tissue' means cervical tissue taken from a woman to determine whether she has cervical cancer;”.

Obligations of health practitioner and person in charge of laboratory

4. Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

        (a)     by omitting from subregulation (1) (being the subregulation added by resolution of the Legislative Assembly published in Gazette No. S3 of 4 January 1995) “the patient” and substituting “each woman from whom a cervical smear or cervical tissue is to be taken”;

        (b)     by omitting from subregulation (1) (being the subregulation included in Subordinate Law No. 30 of 1994) “material” and substituting “tissue”; and

        (c)     by renumbering subregulation (1) (being the subregulation included in Subordinate Law No. 30 of 1994) as subregulation (1A).

Disclosure of identifying information—women