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PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS 2000 (2000 NO 1) - REG 11

Access to information about immunisation status

(1)     The chief health officer, or a person authorised in writing by the chief health officer, may obtain access to and take copies of information about a child's immunisation status if required to do so—

        (a)     for these regulations; or

        (b)     to conduct an epidemiological study.

(2)     The chief health officer may authorise another person under subregulation (1) only if satisfied that the authorised person has adequate knowledge and experience of—

        (a)     disease control; or

        (b)     the management of immunisation programs.

(3)     In this regulation—

epidemiological study means a study or series of studies of—

        (a)     the incidence or distribution of a vaccine preventable disease in the Territory population, a group of persons in that population or a sub-sample of such a group; or

        (b)     the factors responsible for the incidence or distribution, or both, of the disease.


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