Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002

i Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 S.R. No. 75/2002 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objectives 1 2. Authorising provision 1 3. Commencement 2 4. Revocation 2 5. Birth report form 2 6. Information for medical research and studies 2 __________________ SCHEDULE—Report of a birth 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 8 -- 1 of 9 -- 1 STATUTORY RULES 2002 S.R. No. 75/2002 Health Act 1958 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 The Governor in Council, on the advice of the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, makes the following Regulations: Dated: 3 September 2002 Responsible Minister: JOHN THWAITES Minister for Health HELEN DOYE Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objectives The objectives of these Regulations are to prescribe— (a) the form of the report of a birth for the purposes of section 162G(2) of the Health Act 1958; and (b) the conditions under which the Council may permit access to the reported information for medical research and studies. 2. Authorising provision These Regulations are made under section 162I of the Health Act 1958. -- 2 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 2 3. Commencement These Regulations come into operation on 1 October 2002. 4. Revocation The Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 1992 1 are revoked. 5. Birth report form For the purposes of section 162G of the Health Act 1958, the prescribed form of the report of a birth is set out in the Schedule. 6. Information for medical research and studies (1) For the purposes of carrying out its function to provide information to the medical profession for research, the Council may make available to a member of the medical profession who is undertaking or proposing to undertake medical research any information— (a) collected by the perinatal data collection unit conducted by the Council for the purposes of section 162F(1)(b) of the Health Act 1958; and (b) that is not capable of establishing the identity of any person in respect of whom information has been collected. (2) Despite sub-regulation (1), collected information that identifies a person may be given by the Council to a member of the medical profession undertaking or proposing to undertake medical research— (a) if written permission has been given by the mother concerned; and r. 3 -- 3 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 3 (b) if possible, written permission has been given by either the medical practitioner or midwife who was in attendance at the birth; and (c) if the birth occurred in a hospital, written permission has been given by the proprietor of the hospital. __________________ r. 6 -- 4 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 4 SCHEDULE Regulation 5 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 REPORT OF A BIRTH—PART A Sch. -- 5 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 5 Sch. -- 6 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 6 Sch. -- 7 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 7 REPORT OF A BIRTH—PART B Hospital name: Hospital record registration number Surname of mother Given names of mother Address (include suburb and postcode) of mother ═══════════════ Sch. -- 8 of 9 -- S.R. No. 75/2002 Health (Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity) Regulations 2002 8 ENDNOTES 1 Reg. 4: S.R. No. 335/1992. Endnotes -- 9 of 9 --