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PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS 2000 (2000 NO 1) - REG 43

Notification of cancer cases at hospitals and nursing homes

(1)     The person responsible for the day-to-day control of a hospital or nursing home in the Territory must give the chief health officer a notice in the form approved by the chief health officer if—

        (a)     a person who is a patient or resident at the hospital or nursing home is found to have cancer; or

        (b)     a person is treated for cancer at the hospital or nursing home.

(2)     However, notice need not be given of a natural progression of a cancer that has been notified within the previous year.


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