Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 471

471 Cancer notifications

(1) Section 234(1) applies to the director of a pathology laboratory in relation to a pathological examination of a specimen of human origin carried out at the laboratory before the commencement day if—

(a) the examination indicates that the person from whom the specimen was taken is or was suffering from cancer of a class to which the Health Act 1937, section 100C(2) applied; and

(b) the director did not give a completed return for the person under the Health Act 1937, section 100C(2).

(2) If, immediately before the commencement day, a medical practitioner had not given a completed return or copy of a completed return to the chief executive under the Health Act 1937, section 100C(3), that subsection, as in force immediately before the commencement day, continues to apply to the medical practitioner.

(3) In this section—

"commencement day" means the day section 234 commences.