Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations

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Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002

S.R. No. 75/2002

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table of provisions

RegulationPage

1Objectives

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Revocation

5Birth report form

6Information for medical research and studies

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SCHEDULE

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ENDNOTES

1. General Information

2. Table of Amendments

3. Explanatory Details

Version No. 002

Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002

S.R. No. 75/2002

Version as at 14 March 2008

S.R. No. 75/2002

Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002

1Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations are to prescribe—

(a)the form of the report of a birth for the purposes of section 162G(2) of the Health Act 1958; and

(b)the conditions under which the Council may permit access to the reported information for medical research and studies.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 162I of the Health Act 1958.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 1October 2002.

4Revocation

The Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 1992[1] are revoked.

5Birth report form

For the purposes of section 162G of the Health Act 1958, the prescribed form of the report of a birth is set out in the Schedule.

6Information for medical research and studies

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(1)For the purposes of carrying out its function to provide information to the medical profession for research, the Council may make available to a member of the medical profession who is undertaking or proposing to undertake medical research any information—

(a)collected by the perinatal data collection unit conducted by the Council for the purposes of section 162F(1)(b) of the Health Act 1958; and

(b)that is not capable of establishing the identity of any person in respect of whom information has been collected.

(2)Despite subregulation (1), collected information that identifies a person may be given by the Council to a member of the medical profession undertaking or proposing to undertake medical research—

(a)if written permission has been given by the mother concerned; and

(b)if possible, written permission has been given by either the medical practitioner or midwife who was in attendance at the birth; and

(c)if the birth occurred in a hospital, written permission has been given by the proprietor of the hospital.

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SCHEDULE

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Regulation 5

Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality
and Morbidity) Regulations 2002

Report of a Birth—PART A

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Report ofa Birth—PART B

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Hospital name:

Hospital record registration number /
Surname of mother /
Given names of mother / Address (include suburb and postcode) of mother

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Endnotes

1.General Information

The Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002, S.R.No.75/2002 were made on 3 September 2002 by the Governor in Council under section 162I of the Health Act 1958, No.6270/1958 and came into operation on 1 October 2002.

The Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 3 September 2012 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

2.Table of Amendments

Endnotes

There are no amendments made to the Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 by Statutory Rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3.Explanatory Details

Endnotes

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 335/1992.