Public Health Amendment (Prescribed Notification) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Public Health Amendment (Prescribed

Notification) Regulation 2015

under the

Public Health Act 2010

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

Regulation under the Public Health Act 2010.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Public Health Regulation 2012 to prescribe the particulars that are required to be notified by a medical practitioner when attending a person with acute rheumatic fever or a person under the age of 35 years with rheumatic heart disease.

This Regulation is made under the Public Health Act 2010, including sections 54 (2) (a) and 134 (the general regulation-making power).

Public Health Amendment (Prescribed Notification) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Public Health Amendment (Prescribed Notification) Regulation

2015

under the

Public Health Act 2010

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health Amendment (Prescribed Notification)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Public Health Regulation 2012

Clause 37 Notification of category 1 and 2 conditions

Insert after clause 37 (f):

(g) in relation to acute rheumatic fever or, in a person under the age of 35 years, rheumatic heart disease—the particulars required to be included in the Acute Rheumatic Fever/Rheumatic Heart Disease Form published by the Ministry of Health.