New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 126

126 Records to be kept

(1) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to requiring registered medical practitioners and corporations engaged in the provision of medical services to make and keep specified records. A provision of such a regulation may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the provision.

(2) A person who makes or keeps a record under the regulations must ensure that when the record is disposed of it is disposed of in a manner that will preserve the confidentiality of any information it contains relating to patients.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) The Board may grant exemptions from some or all of the requirements of regulations made under this section and may impose conditions on any such exemption.