New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

GUARDIANSHIP REGULATION 2010 - REG 15

15 Clinical records

(1) For the purposes of section 48 of the Act, a person by whom medical or dental treatment is carried out pursuant to a consent given under Part 5 of the Act is to keep a written record of:

(a) the name and address of the person by whom the consent was given, and

(b) the date on which the consent was given, and

(c) the conditions (if any) on which the consent was given, and

(d) the nature of the treatment carried out,

and if the consent was given in writing, is to keep a copy of the consent together with the written record.

(2) A person by whom such a record is kept must allow the record, and any copy of the consent kept with the record, to be inspected at any reasonable time by an authorised officer.

(3) Nothing in this clause requires a person to retain a record of any medical or dental treatment carried out by the person for a period of more than 7 years after the date on which the treatment is carried out.