New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 42O

42O Withholding of identifying particulars

(1) If a woman elects to have her identifying particulars withheld from the Register, the health practitioner to whom she makes the election:

(a) must note any relevant pathology request form accordingly, and

(b) must not provide those particulars to any person for the purpose of their inclusion in the Register.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) A person in charge of a laboratory that receives a pathology request form noted as referred to in subsection (1) must ensure that the laboratory does not provide the identifying particulars of the woman to whom the form relates to any person for the purpose of their inclusion in the Register.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) Any person who has reason to believe that a woman has elected to have her identifying particulars withheld from the Register is not to include those particulars in the Register.