New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 271B

271B Provision of information from Health Secretary to regulator

(1) The Secretary of the Ministry of Health is authorised to provide information to the regulator if the Secretary considers the provision of the information is necessary to enable the regulator to exercise the regulator's functions under this Act.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Secretary of the Ministry of Health must, as soon as practicable after being notified under the Public Health Act 2010 about the following, provide to SafeWork NSW the information contained in the notification--

(a) cases of occupational dust diseases,

(b) deaths resulting from occupational dust diseases.

(3) Information is not required to be provided under subsection (2) if the information is about--

(a) a disease or condition that is included on a register under Part 6 of the Public Health Act 2010 , or

(b) a disease or condition prescribed by the regulations.

(4) Information may be provided in accordance with this section despite any prohibition in, or the need to comply with any requirement of, any Act or other law.

(5) In this section--

"occupational dust disease" means--

(a) a dust disease set out in Schedule 1 to the Workers' Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942 , or

(b) any other respiratory disease or condition prescribed by the regulations.