Human Tissue Amendment (Blood Donor Certificate) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Human Tissue Amendment (Blood Donor

Certificate) Regulation 2014

under the

Human Tissue Act 1983

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Human Tissue Act 1983.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the blood donor certificate that must be signed before any blood may be removed or used for the purposes of a blood transfusion or certain other therapeutic, medical or scientific purposes to make it clear that the donor must certify whether or not he or she has had an illness in the previous year with symptoms that included both a rash and swollen glands.

This Regulation is made under the Human Tissue Act 1983, including sections 20D (2) and 39 (the general regulation-making power).

Human Tissue Amendment (Blood Donor Certificate) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Human Tissue Amendment (Blood Donor Certificate) Regulation

2014

under the

Human Tissue Act 1983

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Human Tissue Amendment (Blood Donor Certificate)
Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 6 July 2014 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Human Tissue Regulation 2010

Schedule 1 Blood donor certificate

Omit “swollen glands and a rash” from question 5.
Insert instead “both a rash and swollen glands”.