Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (Vic)

Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

S.R. No. 165/1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

1.	Objective	1
2.	Authorising provisions	1
3.	Commencement	1
4.	Principal Regulations	1
5.	Amendment of regulation 2	2
6.	Amendment of regulation 3	2
7.	Insertion of new regulation 7	2
7. Prescribed register reports	2
8.	Insertion of new Schedule 3	2
SCHEDULE 3	2

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STATUTORY RULES 1997

S.R. No. 165/1997

Cancer Act 1958

Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 16 December 1997

Responsible Minister:

ROB KNOWLES

Minister for Health

SHARNE BRYAN

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to make provision for the reporting of cancer to the Anti- Cancer Council of Victoria, by organisations that maintain a prescribed register, in accordance with the Cancer Act 1958.

2. Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 60(1A) and 60(4) of the Cancer Act 1958.

3. Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on

1 January 1998.

4. Principal Regulations

In these Regulations the Cancer (Reporting)
Regulations 19921 are called the Principal
Regulations.

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5. Amendment of regulation 2

In regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations, before "hospitals" insert "organisations that maintain a prescribed register,".

6. Amendment of regulation 3

In regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations, for
"section" substitute "sections 60(1), 60(1A),

60(2A) and".

7. Insertion of new regulation 7

After regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations,
insert—

"7. Prescribed register reports

For the purposes of section 60(1A) of the

Cancer Act 1958, a report must—

(a) date the person in charge of an
organisation that maintains a prescribed
register becomes aware that a patient,
whose information is included in the
prescribed register maintained by that

be submitted within 90 days from the to suffer from cancer; and

(b) be in the form contained in Schedule 3.".

8. Insertion of new Schedule 3

After Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations insert—

"SCHEDULE 3

Name of prescribed register
Notifier's number
Prescribed register identification number

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Patient details:

Surname

Given name(s)

Address

Postcode

Date of birth

Sex

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (if known)

Name of doctor in charge of case:

Address

Telephone number

Date of diagnosis of cancer
Vital status
Date of death/Date last known to be alive
Investigations relevant to diagnosis of cancer
Diagnosis in words (site and morphology)
Laterality (if known)
Staging system (if known)
Name of person completing form

Date of completing form".

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1 S.R. No. 40/1992.