Health (Notification of Cancer) Amendment Regulations 1996 (WA)

27 February 1996]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	703
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HEALTH ACT 1911

HEALTH (NOTIFICATION OF CANCER) AMENDMENT

REGULATIONS 1996

Made by his Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Health (Notification of Cancer)

Amendment Regulations 1996.

Principal regulations

2.     In these regulations the Health (Notification of Cancer) Regulations

1981* are referred to as the principal regulations.

whether benign or malignant.

[* Published in Gazette of 24 July 1981 at pp. 3065-66.	For amendments to 15 January 1996 see 1994 Index to Legislation
of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 130-1.]

Regulation 3 amended

3.     Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting the

definition of "cancer" and substituting the following definition —

a

"cancer" means any malignant growth of human tissue which if

its site of origin and includes —

unchecked is likely to spread to adjacent tissue and beyond

(a)	all in situ neoplasms;
(b)	all malignant neoplasms of the skin other than

primary basal cell carcinoma and primary squamous

cell carcinoma; and

(c) all neoplasms of the brain, spinal cord and cranial nerves, and any other intracranial neoplasms,

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Regulation 5 amended

4.     (1) Regulation 5 (1) of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) by inserting after "pathological" the following -

it

or biochemical ";

(b) by inserting after "human origin" the following -

including blood, ";

(c) by deleting "human tissue" and inserting the following -

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specimen "; and

(d)	by deleting "the tissue" and substituting the following -
" it

(2) Regulation 5 (2) of the principal regulations is amended -

(a)	in paragraph (a) by inserting after "name" the following -
cc and address "; and
(b)	by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph - " (aa) the sex and date of birth of the person; ".

Regulation 6 amended

5.      Regulation 6 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) by deleting "and" after paragraph (b);

(b) by deleting the full stop after paragraph (c) and substituting a semicolon; and

(c) by inserting after paragraph (c) the following paragraphs -

it

(d)	the person is referred for examination; and the name of the medical practitioner by whom
(e)	if the person is a patient in a hospital, the name and address of the hospital.

Regulation 7 repealed and a regulation substituted

6.      Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following

regulation is substituted -

"

Fee for notification

7. A fee of $4 for each person in respect of whom notification is	made under regulation 5 or 6 is payable to the person who makes
the notification to the Executive Director, Public Health.

Schedule amended

7. The Schedule to the principal regulations is amended -

(a) by inserting after the item "DATE OF DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER"	the following item -
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PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF PATIENT AT DATE OF DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER .

and

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(b) by inserting after the item "PRIMARY SITE OF CANCER (where

known):" the following items —

known):	MORPHOLOGICAL SUBTYPE OF CANCER (where
METHOD OF DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER:

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.