Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations In these regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears —
Aboriginal health worker means a person who is of
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and —
(a) is
employed by or in a hospital or medical centre; and
(b)
holds, or is actively working towards, an approved VET qualification, as
defined in the Vocational Education and Training Act 1996
section 5(1), that is a certificate III or IV level qualification in
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care;
acute rheumatic fever means an illness caused by
an autoimmune response to a bacterial infection with group A streptococcus
(GAS);
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare means
the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare established under the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987 (Commonwealth)
section 4;
chief executive officer —
(a) in
relation to a hospital, means the person who, subject to the control of the
health service provider for the hospital or the licence holder of the
hospital, is responsible for the day‑to‑day operations of the
hospital; and
(b) in
relation to a medical centre, means the person who is responsible for the
day‑to‑day operations of the centre;
corresponding officer , in relation to another
State or a Territory, means a person who under the law of that State or
Territory has functions that correspond or substantially correspond to the
functions of the Chief Health Officer under these regulations;
dentist means a person registered under the Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the dental
profession whose name is entered on the Dentists Division of the Register of
Dental Practitioners kept under that Law;
health service provider has the meaning given in
the Health Services Act 2016 section 6;
hospital has the meaning given in the
Health Services Act 2016 section 8(4);
identifying information means information from
which the identity of the person to whom the information relates is apparent
or can reasonably be ascertained;
medical centre means a centre, post, clinic or
other place for the treatment of persons suffering from illness or injury, or
in need of medical, surgical or dental treatment or assistance and that is
administered by, or through, one of the following —
(a) the
Department as defined in the Health Services Act 2016 section 6;
(b) a
health service provider;
(c) the
Department as defined in the Prisons Act 1981 section 3(1);
(d) a
local government;
(e) the
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia
(ACN 114 220 478);
(f) a
health service that is a member of the Aboriginal Health Council of Western
Australia (ACN 114 220 478);
medical specialist means a person registered under
the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in a
recognised specialty in the medical profession who —
(a) is a
cardiologist, cardio‑thoracic surgeon, paediatrician or physician; or
(b) is
involved in the diagnosis or treatment of persons with acute rheumatic fever
or rheumatic heart disease;
medical test means a diagnostic, clinical or
investigative test undertaken at the request of a medical practitioner or a
nurse practitioner;
National Coordination Unit means the National
Coordination Unit of the Rheumatic Fever Strategy referred to in Schedule E to
the National Partnership Agreement on Specified Projects entered into by the
States and Territories and the Commonwealth and commencing on
1 July 2014, as amended from time to time;
obstetrician means a person registered under the
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the medical
profession in the recognised specialty of obstetrics and gynaecology;
register means the register referred to in
regulation 13(1);
repealed regulations means the Health
(Notification of Acute Rheumatic Fever) Regulations 2007 repealed by
regulation 19 of these regulations;
rheumatic heart disease means damage to the heart
resulting from an episode, or more than one episode, of acute rheumatic fever.
[Regulation 3 amended: Gazette
24 Jun 2016 p. 2312‑13; 10 Jan 2017 p. 278.]