Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Reporting) Rules 2021

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rules.

Dated 19 February 2021

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Immunisation Register Rule 2015

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Reporting) Rules 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Immunisation Register Rule 2015

1  Section 4 (after the heading)

Insert:

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) provider identification information;

(b) recognised vaccination provider;

(c) relevant vaccination.

2  At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 3—Reporting

9  Reporting requirement relating to certain relevant vaccinations administered in Australia

  For the purposes of subsection 10A(1) of the Act:

 (a) the following kinds of relevant vaccinations are prescribed:

 (i) a relevant vaccination for the coronavirus known as COVID‑19;

 (ii) a relevant vaccination for influenza; and

 (b) the prescribed circumstance is that a relevant vaccination is administered:

 (i) for a relevant vaccination for the coronavirus known as COVID‑19—on or after the commencement of this section; or

 (ii) for a relevant vaccination for influenza—on or after 1 March 2021; and

 (c) the prescribed period is the period of:

 (i) if it is reasonably practicable to do so—24 hours after a relevant vaccination is administered; or

 (ii) otherwise—10 business days after a relevant vaccination is administered; and

 (d) the prescribed manner is an electronic form or, if that is not reasonably practicable, a written form; and

 (e) the following information is prescribed:

 (i) the name, contact details, date of birth and gender of the individual to whom a relevant vaccination is administered;

 (ii) if that individual has a medicare number (within the meaning of Part VII of the National Health Act 1953)—that number;

 (iii) if that individual has a healthcare identifier (within the meaning of the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010)—that identifier (if known);

 (iv) provider identification information for the recognised vaccination provider who administers a relevant vaccination;

 (v) the day of the vaccination;

 (vi) the brand, dose number and batch number of the administered vaccine;

 (vii) for a relevant vaccination for the coronavirus known as COVID‑19—the vial serial number of the administered vaccine (if known).