Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS 2000 (2000 NO 1) - REG 24

(1)     The person responsible for the day-to-day control of a laboratory must, after a woman's cervical smear or cervical tissue is examined, send the registrable information to the chief health officer, unless a refusal of consent marker is attached to the pathology request form.

(2)     If a person responsible for the day-to-day control of a laboratory gives registrable information to the chief health officer—

        (a)     giving the information is not—

              (i)     a breach of confidence; or

              (ii)     a breach of professional etiquette; or

              (iii)     a breach of professional ethics; or

              (iv)     a breach of a rule of professional conduct; and

        (b)     no civil or criminal liability is incurred only because the information is given.