Public Health (Amendment) Act 1970 (NSW)

PUBLIC HEALTH (AMENDMENT) ACT.

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Act No. 39, 1970.

An Act to require the notification of certain dangerous diseases; for this purpose and for other purposes to amend the Public Health Act, 1902; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 17th September, 1970.]

r> E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by A J and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows;—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the “Public Health short title

(Amendment) Act, 1970”. mencem;nt.

( 2 )

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No. 39,1970 ( 2) This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

Amendment

2. The Public Health Act, 1902, is amended—

of Act No.

30, 1902.

Sec. 1.	(a) by inserting in section one next after the matter
and

(Short title	relating to Part III the words “PART I I I a .—
Dangerous D iseases— ss. 50b-50 e .” ;
division.)

Sec. 29. (b) (i) by omitting from subparagraph (i) of

(Notification	paragraph (a) of subsection (1 a ) of section
of infectious
diseases.)	twenty-nine the words “, leprosy or puerperal infection” and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “or leprosy” ;

(ii)   by omitting from paragraph (b) of the same subsection the words “or puerperal infection” ;

New (c) by inserting next after Part III the following new

Part niA. P a r t:—

PART IIIa.

D angerous D iseases.

Interpre­

50b . In this Part, except in so far as the context

or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires—

tation.

“chief executive officer”, in relation to a hospital

that is—

(a) referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the definition of “hospital” in this subsection— means the person who is responsible for the executive management of the hospital, by whatever title he is known;

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(b)	referred to in paragraph (d) of that no. 39,1970
definition—means the manager, ----

within the meaning of the Private Hospitals Act, 1908, of the hospital;

(c)	referred to in paragraph (e) of that
definition—means the person

specified or described, in relation to the hospital, in the regulations;

“dangerous disease” means a disease declared to be a dangerous disease under section 50c of this A ct;

“hospital” means—

(a)	a hospital mentioned in the Second or Third Schedule of the Public Hospitals Act, 1929;
(b)	a hospital conducted by the Depart­ ment of Public Health;
(c)	an admission centre, authorised hospital or mental hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Act, 1958;
(d)	a private hospital or rest home within the meaning of the Private Hospitals Act, 1908; or
(e)	such other institutions as may be prescribed.

50c. The Governor may, by proclamation in Powers of the Gazette, declare that any disease therein named Governor, or described is a dangerous disease, and he may in

like manner revoke or vary any such declaration.

50d. The chief executive officer of a hospital Notification

shall, in the prescribed manner, in or to the effect of the prescribed form and at the prescribed times,

furnish

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No. 39, 1970 furnish a return to the Director-General of Public Health setting out the prescribed particulars in respect of the prescribed class or classes of persons who are or have been suffering from a dangerous disease and who are or have been patients of, or attending, the hospital.

Penalty : Fifty dollars.

Regulations.	50e . (1) The Governor may on the recommen­ dation of the Board make regulations for or with respect to prescribing all matters which by this Part are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Part.
(2) The regulations may impose a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for any breach thereof, or, where the breach is a continuing one, not exceeding twenty dollars for every day that the breach is continued.

Sec. too.	(d) by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection one
service.)

(Method of of section one hundred the word “registered”.

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