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Health Amendment Act 1994

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Health Amendment Act 1994

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Health Amendment Act 1994

Public Act
  
1994 No 37
Date of assent
  
1 July 1994
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title
2 Expiry of section 22I
3 National Cervical Screening Register
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Health Act 1956

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Health Amendment Act 1994, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Health Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Expiry of section 22I

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 22J (as substituted by section 2 of the Health Amendment Act (No. 2) 1993), and substituting the following section:

“22J

Section 22I of this Act shall expire with the close of the 31st day of December 1994, and on the 1st day of January 1995 that section shall be deemed to have been repealed.”

3 National Cervical Screening Register

(1)

Section 74A of the principal Act (as inserted by section 21 of the Health Amendment Act 1993) is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (f) of subsection (5), immediately before the word "For, the words “Subject to any regulations made under subsection (7)(b) of this section,”.

(2)

Section 74A of the principal Act (as so inserted) is hereby amended by repealing subsection (7), and substituting the following subsection:

“(7)

Regulations may be made under this Act for any one or more of the following purposes:

“(a)

Regulating access to the register by persons studying cancer:

“(b)

Prohibiting the disclosure, under subsection (5)(f) of this section, of information that relates to any class or classes of women specified in the regulations, including prohibiting the disclosure of such information without the approval of any person or group of persons or body or organisation specified in the regulations:

“(c)

Specifying the obligations of the person who maintains the register to women named on the register:

“(d)

Regulating the use, disclosure, and publication of information from the register:

“(e)

Prohibiting the use, disclosure, and publication of information from the register where the information relates to any class or classes of women specified in the regulations, including prohibiting the use, disclosure, and publication of such information without the approval of any person or group of persons or body or organisation specified in the regulations:

“(f)

Providing for the establishment, appointment, procedures, and powers of any person or group of persons or body or organisation established to make decisions relating to the matters referred to in paragraph (e) of this subsection.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Health.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 01 July 1994 (as enacted)

Health Amendment Act 1994

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