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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1997 - SECT 42F

Alteration of appliances—offence

    (1)     A person who performs a licensable public health risk procedure must not, except in accordance with an approval under section 42G, make a procedure appliance alteration if the alteration would increase the public health risk associated with the procedure.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (2)     For subsection (1), a procedure appliance alteration is taken to increase the public health risk associated with a public health risk procedure if there are reasonable grounds for the person who performs the procedure to believe that the alteration would increase the risk (irrespective of the person's actual belief).



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