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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2010 - SECT 85
Definitions
85 Definitions
(cf 1991 Act, s 42A)
(1) In this Division--
"authorised practitioner" means-- (a) a medical practitioner, or
(b) a member
of a class of health practitioners prescribed by the regulations for the
purposes of this definition.
"child" means a child of a class (such as children of a specified age group)
prescribed by the regulations.
"child at risk" , in relation to a vaccine preventable disease, means a child
enrolled at a school or child care facility for whom no
immunisation certificate or evidence of immunisation has been lodged or
produced to the principal of the school or facility to show that the child has
been immunised against, or has acquired immunity by infection from, the
disease.
"child care facility" means-- (a) an education and care service within the
meaning of the Children (Education and Care Services) National Law (NSW) , or
(b) a State regulated education and care service within the meaning of the
Children (Education and Care Services) Supplementary Provisions Act 2011 , or
(c) a service or facility of a class declared by the regulations to be a
child care facility for the purposes of this Division.
"immunisation" means the process of administering to a person a substance
registered as a vaccine in the part of the Australian Register of Therapeutic
Goods maintained under section 9A of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 of the
Commonwealth relating to registered goods.
"immunisation certificate" means-- (a) a statement as to the immunisation
history of a child issued by the Australian Immunisation Register, or
(b)
another report, in the approved form, by a person of a class approved by the
Secretary to do so, as to the immunisation status of a child.
"immunisation status" of a child means whether or not the child has been
immunised against, or has acquired immunity by infection from, all or
specified vaccine preventable diseases.
"NSW Immunisation Schedule" means the NSW Immunisation Schedule approved by
the Chief Health Officer from time to time and published by the Ministry of
Health on its website.
"parent" of a child includes a guardian or other person having the care or
custody of the child.
"principal" of a school or child care facility means the person in charge of
the school or facility.
"school" means-- (a) a government school established under the
Education Act 1990 , or
(b) a non-government school registered under that
Act.
"vaccine preventable disease" means a disease listed in Schedule 3.
(2) The
Minister may, by order published on the NSW legislation website, amend or
substitute Schedule 3.
(3) In this Division, a reference to an
immunisation certificate or other certificate includes a reference to a copy
of any such certificate.
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