Health (Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies) Regulations 2010 (WA)

Western Australia Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 Health (Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies) Regulations 2010 Western Australia Health (Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies) Regulations 2010 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used 1 4. Term used: developmental anomaly 2 5. Developmental anomaly a prescribed condition of health 3 Part 2 — Notification of developmental anomalies 6. Notification of diagnosis of developmental anomaly 4 7. Chief Health Officer may require information 4 Part 3 — Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies 8. Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies 6 9. Offence to disclose information without authority 7 10. Chief Health Officer may authorise disclosure of information 7 11. Right to know of information on the register 8 12. Identifying information may be removed from register 8 13. Persons under a legal disability 9 Notes Compilation table 10 Defined terms Western Australia Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 Health (Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies) Regulations 2010

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Citation These regulations are the Health (Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies) Regulations 2010.

2. Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows — (a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3. Terms used In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears — Australian Institute of Health and Welfare means the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare established under the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987 (Commonwealth) section 4; chief executive officer, in relation to a hospital, means the person who, subject to the control of the health service provider for the hospital or the licence holder of the hospital, is responsible for the day‑to‑day operations of the hospital; child includes a human fetus; corresponding officer, in relation to another State or a Territory, means a person who under the law of that State or Territory has functions that correspond or substantially correspond to the functions of the Chief Health Officer under these regulations; developmental anomaly has the meaning given in regulation 4; health service provider has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 6; hospital has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 8(4); identifying information means information from which the identity of the person to whom the information relates is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained; notified information means information notified under Part 2; register means the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies referred to in regulation 8. [Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 24 Jun 2016 p. 2314; 10 Jan 2017 p. 296.]