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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 279AF

Obligation to notify chief executive

279AF Obligation to notify chief executive

(1) This section applies if a prescribed medical practitioner diagnoses a person as having a notifiable dust lung disease.
(2) The prescribed medical practitioner must, within the period prescribed by regulation, give the chief executive a notification about the notifiable dust lung disease unless the practitioner has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(3) The notification must be in the approved form.
(4) However, subsection (2) does not apply if the prescribed medical practitioner has given information about the notifiable dust lung disease to—
(a) the chief executive of the department in which the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 is administered ; or
(b) a public service employee of the department mentioned in paragraph (a) ; or
(c) another medical practitioner, who is authorised under an Act prescribed by regulation, to provide a health assessment about the person.



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