Victorian Numbered Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING REGULATIONS 2009 (SR NO 178 OF 2009)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objective  
   2.      Authorising provisions  
   3.      Commencement  
   4.      Definitions  

   PART 2--PRESCRIBED SENIOR OFFICERS

   5.      Prescribed senior officers  

   PART 3--CONSULTATIVE COUNCILS

   6.      Meetings of Consultative Councils  
   7.      Quorum of Consultative Council meetings  
   8.      Fees Payable to members of a Consultative Council or Consultative Council sub-committee  
   9.      Prescribed Consultative Councils  
   10.     Information for research  
   11.     Time to provide birth report  

   PART 4--ARBOVIRUS INFECTION CONTROL

   12.     Prevention of mosquito breeding  

   PART 5--PRESCRIBED ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTERED PREMISES

           Division 1--Scope and registration

   13.     Prescribed accommodation  
   14.     Exempt prescribed accommodation  
   15.     Exempt registered premises  
   16.     Applications for registration  

           Division 2--Standards and requirements for prescribed accommodation

   17.     Overcrowding in prescribed accommodation  
   18.     Maintenance of prescribed accommodation  
   19.     Cleanliness of prescribed accommodation  
   20.     Water supplied to prescribed accommodation  
   21.     Drinking water and prescribed accommodation  
   22.     Discharge of sewage and waste water in prescribed accommodation  
   23.     Refuse receptacles and prescribed accommodation  
   24.     Refuse disposal and prescribed accommodation  
   25.     Toilet and bathing facilities in prescribed accommodation  
   26.     Register of occupants of prescribed accommodation  
   27.     Advertising and prescribed accommodation  

           Division 3--Standards and requirements for registered premises

   28.     Condition of registered premises  
   29.     Condition of skin penetrating equipment and other articles used at registered premises  
   30.     Personal hygiene  
   31.     Hand washing facilities at registered premises  
   32.     Information to be provided to clients of registered premises  
   33.     Information to be kept: premises that provide tattooing or body piercing  

           Division 4--Prescribed conditions

   34.     Prescribed conditions  

   PART 6--AQUATIC FACILITIES

   35.     Exclusions—Part 6  
   36.     Aquatic facility deemed to be open for use  
   37.     Maintenance of aquatic facilities  
   38.     Clarity of aquatic facility water  
   39.     Treatment of aquatic facility water  
   40.     Microbiological quality  
   41.     Chemical testing  
   42.     Filtering  
   43.     Temperature  
   44.     Cyanuric acid level  
   45.     Total alkalinity level  
   46.     Combined chlorine  
   47.     Aquatic facility suspected or implicated as the source of infection  
   48.     Aquatic facility records  

   PART 7--COOLING TOWER SYSTEMS AND LEGIONELLA RISKS IN CERTAIN PREMISES

           Division 1--Cooling Tower Systems

   49.     Fees for applications to register or renew registration of a cooling tower system  
   50.     Secretary may waive fees for registration or renewal of registration of cooling tower system  
   51.     Risk management plans for cooling tower system  
   52.     Cooling tower system risk management plan audits  
   53.     Maintenance of cooling tower systems  
   54.     Cooling tower water quality and treatment  
   55.     Disinfection, cleaning and re-disinfection of cooling tower water  
   56.     Routine service and testing of cooling towers  
   57.     High heterotrophic colony count detected in cooling tower system  
   58.     Legionella detected in cooling tower system  
   59.     Cooling tower system suspected or implicated as the source of infection  
   60.     Records to be kept in respect of cooling tower systems  

           Division 2--Legionella risks in certain premises

   61.     Application of this Division  
   62.     Legionella risk management in certain places  
   63.     Legionella detected in a water delivery system  
   64.     Water delivery system suspected or implicated as the source of infection  

   PART 8--PEST CONTROL

   65.     Pest control licence fees  
   66.     Qualifications for pest control licences  
   67.     Qualifications for certain existing pest control licence holders  
   68.     Courses of training for supervised pest control licence holders  
   69.     Records  

   PART 9--MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, MICRO-ORGANISMS AND MEDICAL CONDITIONS

           Division 1--Notifications

   70.     Notifiable conditions and micro-organisms  
   71.     Notification of notifiable conditions by medical practitioners  
   72.     Notification of notifiable conditions by pathology services  
   73.     Notification of micro-organisms—laboratories and food premises  

           Division 2--Notification and directions

   74.     Secretary may notify Council  
   75.     Secretary may give written directions  
   76.     Powers of authorised officer  

           Division 3--HIV tests

   77.     Information to be given to a person requesting a test for HIV  
   78.     Positive test results  
   79.     Classes of persons who may provide counselling about the risk of transmission  

           Division 4--Immunisation

   80.     Definition of immunised  
   81.     Vaccine-preventable diseases  
   82.     Retention of immunisation status certificates at primary schools  
   83.     Access to immunisation status certificates  
   84.     Provision of information  
   85.     Primary school or children's services centre exclusion  

           Division 5--Tissue donations

   86.     Prescribed period  

           Division 6--Information to sex workers and clients

   87.     Information to sex workers and clients  

   PART 10--INFRINGEMENTS

   88.     Infringements  
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