Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts If, immediately before
commencement day, an application made to the Children’s Court under the
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 section 334(9) has not been
determined by the Children’s Court, the application is taken to have
been discontinued on commencement day.
[Section 325 inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 16.]
This is a compilation of the Public Health Act 2016 and includes amendments
made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation see
the compilation table. For provisions that have not yet come into operation
see the uncommenced provisions table.
Compilation table
|
Short title |
Number and year |
Assent |
Commencement |
|---|---|---|---|
|
18 of 2016 |
25 Jul 2016 |
Pt. 1 (other than s. 3- 5): 25 Jul 2016 (see s. 2(a)); | |
|
Public Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 2016 Pt. 5 Div. 18 |
19 of 2016 |
25 Jul 2016 |
20 Sep 2017 (see s. 2(1)(c) and Gazette 19 Sep 2017 p. 4880) |
|
Local Government Legislation Amendment Act 2016 Pt. 3 Div. 28 |
26 of 2016 |
21 Sep 2016 |
21 Jan 2017 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 20 Jan 2017 p. 648) |
|
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Amendment Act 2018 s. 117 |
4 of 2018 |
19 Apr 2018 |
1 Dec 2018 (see s. 2(d) and Gazette 13 Nov 2018 p. 4427-8) |
|
Public Health Amendment (Immunisation Requirements for Enrolment) Act 2019 Pt.
2 |
14 of 2019 |
5 Jul 2019 |
s. 3: 5 Jul 2019 (see s. 2(a)); |
|
Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Response) Act 2020 |
33 of 2020 |
21 Aug 2020 |
s. 1 and 2: 21 Aug 2020 (see s. 2(1)(a)); |
|
Public Health Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Act 2021 |
9 of 2021 |
17 Aug 2021 |
s. 1 and 2: 17 Aug 2021 (see s. 2(a)); |
|
Emergency Management Amendment (Temporary COVID-19 Provisions) Act 2022 |
33 of 2022 |
21 Oct 2022 |
Pt. 2 Div. 2 Subdiv. 5: 3 Nov 2022 (see s. 2(b) and SL 2022/175 cl. 2); |
|
Directors’ Liability Reform Act 2023 Pt. 3 Div. 51 |
9 of 2023 |
4 Apr 2023 |
5 Apr 2023 (see s. 2(j)) |
|
Abortion Legislation Reform Act 2023 Pt. 3 |
20 of 2023 |
27 Sep 2023 |
27 Mar 2024 (see s. 2(b) and SL 2024/21 cl. 2) |
To view the text of the uncommenced provisions see Acts as passed on the WA
Legislation website.
|
Short title |
Number and year |
Assent |
Commencement |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Public Health Act 2016 s. 7 and 8, Pt. 6, 7 and 10, s. 295 and 296 and Pt. 20
(s. 313-320) |
18 of 2016 |
25 Jul 2016 |
To be proclaimed (see s. 2(c)) |
Defined terms
[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they
are defined. The list is not part of the law.]
Defined term Provision(s)
abortion drug
202MA
activity licence 4(1),
64
acute rheumatic fever 91(1)
Advisory Panel
143
affected person
132
agency 266
applicant
127(1)
appropriate enforcement agency 4(1)
approved form 4(1)
assessment
210
Australian Immunisation Register 141A
authorisation 154(1), 176(1), 181(1), 198(1)
authorised officer 4(1) and (2)
CEO
4(1)
certificate of registration
4(1), 64
certificate requirement 31(1)
Chief
Health Officer 4(1)
child
99, 115, 132, 141A, 155, 177, 202G
child care service
4(1)
class A 26(1)
code
305(1)
commencement day
311(1), 323
Commissioner of Police 4(1)
community
kindergarten 4(1)
compliance plan
266
compulsory education period 4(1)
confidential information 302(1)
contact person
132
corresponding law
129(1)
corresponding provision 40(1)
corresponding
public health law 64
Crown
266
Crown authority 266
current
141A
Department 4(1)
departmental officer 4(1)
designate
23, 299(1)
designated officer 299(1)
designation 23
directing practitioner
202MF(1)
direction 198(1)
disability 115, 155, 177
dispense
202MA
distribute 202O
emergency area
4(1)
emergency management
4(1)
emergency management purposes 177
emergency officer 4(1), 199(1)
emergency power
4(1)
employed in the Department
4(1)
enforcement agency 4(1)
enforcement order 4(1)
engage in conduct
36
enrolment 142A(1)
environmental health officer 4(1)
exempt child
141A
exemption 266
exemption-holder 266
exempt person
67(1), 77(1)
exposed person 132
general public health duty 4(1)
guardian
202G, 202MM(1)
guidelines
299(1)
harm 4(1)
Health Act
307(1)
health profession 4(1)
health
professional 174(1)
health service
202MA
health service provider 202MA
hotel 202G
hotel-quarantined person
202G
IDEC declaration 4(1), 202A(1)
IDEC-directed person 160(4), 187(4)
identity card
31(1)
immunisation certificate
141A
immunisation status 141A
impaired person 155, 177
improvement notice
4(1)
incapable person 99, 115
incumbent 311(1)
informant
237(1)
information 205(1)
information
sharing agency 299(1)
inquirer
227
inquiry 227
judicial officer
4(1)
licensable activity
64
local public health plan 45(1)
material
public health risk 4(1)
medical examination
4(1)
medical practitioner
4(1)
medicine 202MA
midwife
4(1)
Minister 266
needle and syringe
programme 4(1)
non-SES organisation
266
notifiable infectious disease
4(1)
notifiable infectious disease-related condition
4(1)
nurse 4(1)
nurse practitioner
4(1)
occupier 210
officer
299(1)
order 92(1),
129(1)
parent 202G
patient
202MI(1), 202MM(2)
perform an abortion
202MA
performs an abortion 202MB(1)
person
202MA
person A 26(1)
personal
details 4(1)
person in charge
141A
pharmacist 202MA
poison
197(1)
premises 4(1)
premises at
which abortions are provided 202O
prescribe
202MA
prescribed condition of health
4(1)
prescribing practitioner 202MA,
202MD(1)
prescription 202MA
primary clinical
supervisor 202MA
primary practitioner
202ME(1)
private hospital service provider
202MA
production requirement 31(1)
protected person 99, 115
public authority
4(1)
public health 4(1)
public health emergency 4(1)
public health
emergency management plan 4(1)
public health
official 4(1)
public health order
4(1)
public health plan 42
public
health risk 4(1)
public health risk activity
4(1)
public health state of emergency
4(1)
public health state of emergency declaration
4(1)
publish 202O
quarantine
direction 4(1)
reasonably suspects
239
record 244(1)
recording
202O
refusing practitioner
202MI(1)
registered health practitioner 202MA
registrable activity 64
relative
99, 115, 132, 155, 177
relevant amendments
306A(1)
relevant counselling 99
relevant
health profession 202MA
relevant information
188(1), 299(1)
relevant officer
286(1)
relevant person 100(1),
106(3), 124(3), 158(1), 185(1), 202MA
relevant to an offence
244(1)
remote communication 4(1)
requesting person 202MH(2)
required information
132
residual term
311(1)
responsible agency 291
responsible Minister
274(3)
responsible pathologist
93
responsible person 99, 115, 141A,
155, 177
reviewable decisions 163(1), 194(1)
rheumatic heart disease 91(1)
safe access zone
202O
sample 4(1)
school 4(1)
senior next of kin
4(1)
senior police officer 4(1)
serious public health incident power 4(1)
serious
public health risk 4(1)
specified
23, 322(1)
specified information
298(1)
State public health plan 43(1)
student
4(1), 202MA
student register
202MA
subsidiary legislation 305(1)
supervising person 202MJ(1)
supply
202MA
test order 4(1)
thing
244(1)
transitional matter
322(1)
unqualified person 202MN(2), (3), (4), (5),
(6), (7) and (8)
urgently notifiable infectious disease
4(1)
urgently notifiable infectious disease-related condition
4(1)
vaccine preventable notifiable infectious disease
4(1)
vary 64
vehicle
4(1)
vessel 4(1)
welfare services 188(1)
working day
4(1)
World Health Organization
299(1)
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