Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

i Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 S.R. No. 165/1997 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objective 1 2. Authorising provisions 1 3. Commencement 1 4. Principal Regulations 1 5. Amendment of regulation 2 2 6. Amendment of regulation 3 2 7. Insertion of new regulation 7 2 7. Prescribed register reports 2 8. Insertion of new Schedule 3 2 SCHEDULE 3 2 ═══════════════ NOTES 4 -- 1 of 5 -- 1 STATUTORY RULES 1997 S.R. No. 165/1997 Cancer Act 1958 Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 16 December 1997 Responsible Minister: ROB KNOWLES Minister for Health SHARNE BRYAN Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objective The objective of these Regulations is to make provision for the reporting of cancer to the Anti- Cancer Council of Victoria, by organisations that maintain a prescribed register, in accordance with the Cancer Act 1958. 2. Authorising provisions These Regulations are made under sections 60(1A) and 60(4) of the Cancer Act 1958. 3. Commencement These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 1998. 4. Principal Regulations In these Regulations the Cancer (Reporting) Regulations 1992 1 are called the Principal Regulations. -- 2 of 5 -- S.R. No. 165/1997 Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 2 5. Amendment of regulation 2 In regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations, before "hospitals" insert "organisations that maintain a prescribed register,". 6. Amendment of regulation 3 In regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations, for "section" substitute "sections 60(1), 60(1A), 60(2A) and". 7. Insertion of new regulation 7 After regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations, insert— "7. Prescribed register reports For the purposes of section 60(1A) of the Cancer Act 1958, a report must— (a) be submitted within 90 days from the date the person in charge of an organisation that maintains a prescribed register becomes aware that a patient, whose information is included in the prescribed register maintained by that organisation, is suffering or commences to suffer from cancer; and (b) be in the form contained in Schedule 3.". 8. Insertion of new Schedule 3 After Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations insert— "SCHEDULE 3 Name of prescribed register Notifier's number Prescribed register identification number r. 5 -- 3 of 5 -- S.R. No. 165/1997 Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 3 Patient details: Surname Given name(s) Address Postcode Date of birth Sex Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (if known) Name of doctor in charge of case: Address Telephone number Date of diagnosis of cancer Vital status Date of death/Date last known to be alive Investigations relevant to diagnosis of cancer Diagnosis in words (site and morphology) Laterality (if known) Staging system (if known) Name of person completing form Date of completing form". ═══════════════ r. 8 -- 4 of 5 -- S.R. No. 165/1997 Cancer (Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 4 NOTES 1 S.R. No. 40/1992. Notes -- 5 of 5 --