Cancer (Registration) Act (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

CANCER REGISTRATION ACT

As in force at 10 December 1997

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This reprint shows the Act as in force at 10 December 1997.  Any amendments that commence after that date are not included.

CANCER REGISTRATION act

An Act to provide for the registration of cancer and for related matters

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Cancer (Registration) Act.

2Commencement

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the Administrator by notice in the Gazette.

3Definitions

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

cancer means a neoplasm of human tissue that is malignant, that if unchecked invades adjacent tissues or extends beyond its site of origin, and that has the propensity to recur either locally or remotely in the body;

Registrar means the person appointed Registrar for the purposes of this Act.

4Appointment of Registrar to maintain cancer register

• (1)

  The Minister shall appoint a person to act as Registrar for the purposes of this Act.

• (2)

  The Registrar shall establish and maintain a register of persons in respect of whom he has been provided with details in pursuance of this Act.

5Details to be provided to Registrar

• (1)

  The person in charge of a place where specimens of human origin are accepted for pathological examination (whether the examination is to take place within the Territory or outside it) shall, within 7 days of receiving a report which indicates that the person from whom a specimen was taken is or was suffering from cancer, provide the Registrar with the prescribed details (so far as available to him) in respect of that person.

• (2)

  The Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages shall, in every case where the registration of a person’s death shows cancer as the cause of death, provide the Registrar with the details contained in that registration.

• (3)

  A person who:

  • (a)

    fails to comply with subsection (1); or

  • (b)

    knowingly provides details pursuant to subsection (1) that are false or misleading,

  is guilty of an offence.

  Penalty:          $100.

6Confidentiality of information

• (1)

  Subject to subsections (2) and (3), it is an offence for a person to disclose to another, except for a purpose related to the carrying out of this Act or where the disclosure is required by law, any information provided under section 5 which has come to his knowledge in the performance of a function connected with or incidental to the carrying out of this Act.

  Penalty:          $1,000.

• (2)

  The Registrar may in his discretion make information provided under section 5 publicly available in a statistical form that does not identify those to whom the information relates.

• (3)

  Subject to subsection (4), the Registrar may in his discretion disclose specific information provided under section 5 to a person authorized in writing by the Chief Health Officer appointed under the Public Health Act to undertake scientific research in accordance with guidelines established by the National Health and Medical Research Council continued in existence by the National Health and Medical Research Council Order made by the Governor-General on 21 December 1987 and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. GN2 dated 20 January 1988.

• (4)

  The consent in writing of the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is required for the disclosure by virtue of subsection (3) of information provided by him.

7Regulations

The Administrator may make regulations prescribing matters:

• (a)

  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

• (b)

  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

ENDNOTES

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  KEY

Key to abbreviations

 

amd = amended od = order

app = appendix om = omitted

bl = by-law pt = Part

ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule

cl = clause rem = remainder

div = Division renum = renumbered

exp = expires/expired rep = repealed

f = forms s = section

Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule

hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision

ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation

lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

• 2

  LIST OF LEGISLATION

Cancer Registration Act 1988 (Act No. 64, 1988)
Assent date	15 December 1988
Commenced	1 March 1991 (Gaz G8, 27 February 1991, p 6)
Statute Law Revision Act 1997 (Act No. 17, 1997)
Assent date	11 April 1997
Commenced	s 16: 10 December 1997; rem: 1 May 1997 (Gaz G17, 30 April 1997, p 2)

3. LIST OF AMENDMENTS

s 6                     amd No. 17, 1997, s 17