Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 234

234 Notification about pathological examination

(1) This section applies to the director of a pathology laboratory if—

(a) a pathological examination of a specimen of human origin is carried out at the laboratory; and

(b) either—

(i) the examination indicates the person from whom the specimen was taken has, or has had, cancer; or

(ii) the director reasonably suspects the examination is a cancer-related follow-up examination.

(2) The director must, within the period prescribed by regulation, give the chief executive a notification in the approved form about the pathological examination.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) In this section—

"cancer-related follow-up examination" means a pathological examination of a specimen of human origin that is—

(a) carried out after the person from whom the specimen was taken has been diagnosed with cancer; and

(b) carried out—

(i) to determine the characteristics or status of the cancer; or

(ii) to support or inform the treatment of the cancer.