National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rules.

Dated  5 February 2024

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

Division 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

Division 2—Definitions

4 Definitions

5 Prescribed medical practitioners

6 Prescribed occupational respiratory diseases

Part 2—National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry

7 Period for notifying information—diagnosing prescribed medical practitioner

Part 3—Dealing with information in the National Registry

8 Commonwealth authorities to which minimum notification information included in the National Registry may be disclosed

Part 1—Preliminary

Division 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023.

Division 2—Definitions

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023.

Health Practitioner Regulation National Law has the same meaning as National Law has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

5  Prescribed medical practitioners

  For the purposes of the definition of prescribed medical practitioner in section 8 of the Act, the following kinds of medical practitioners are prescribed:

 (a) a medical practitioner registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a specialist in the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine;

 (b) a medical practitioner registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a specialist in the specialty of respiratory and sleep medicine.

6  Prescribed occupational respiratory diseases

  For the purposes of the definition of prescribed occupational respiratory disease in section 8 of the Act, an occupational respiratory disease mentioned in the following table is prescribed.

Part 2—National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry

7  Period for notifying information—diagnosing prescribed medical practitioner

  For the purposes of subsection 14(1) of the Act, the period within which a prescribed medical practitioner who diagnoses an individual with a prescribed occupational respiratory disease must notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer of the minimum notification information in relation to the individual is 30 days after the day the practitioner makes the diagnosis.

Part 3—Dealing with information in the National Registry

8  Commonwealth authorities to which minimum notification information included in the National Registry may be disclosed

  For the purposes of paragraph 22(1)(a) of the Act, the following Commonwealth authorities are prescribed:

 (a) the Australian Bureau of Statistics;

 (b) the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.