Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions) Regulation 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 351

New South Wales

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled

Medical Conditions) Regulation 2012

under the

Public Health Act 2010

Her 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 enable the Director-General, and registered medical practitioners in some circumstances, to provide advice to a person who has a particular scheduled medical condition, and to anyone who may have been in contact with such a person, in relation to minimising the danger of the medical condition being passed on.

This Regulation is made under the Public Health Act 2010, including section 134 (the general regulation-making power).

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2012 No 351
Clause 1	Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical Conditions) Regulation 2012

Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical

Conditions) Regulation 2012

under the

Public Health Act 2010

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health Amendment (Scheduled Medical
Conditions) Regulation 2012.

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

Clauses 39A and 39B

Insert after clause 39:

39A Advice to Category 2 or 3 patients

The Director-General, or a registered medical practitioner authorised under this clause by the Director-General, may notify a person suffering from a Category 2 or 3 condition of measures to be taken, and activities to be avoided, in order to minimise the danger of passing the medical condition to another person.

39B Advice to Category 2, 3 or 4 contacts

The Director-General may notify a person who the Director-General believes may have been in contact with a person suffering from a Category 2, 3 or 4 condition of measures to be taken, and activities to be avoided, in order to minimise the danger of the first person contracting the condition or passing it to a third person.