Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

BLOOD DONATION (TRANSMITTABLE DISEASES) (NO 78 OF 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Blood Donation (Transmittable Diseases) (Amendment) Act  
   2.      This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Blood Donation (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Act 1985.1  
   4.      The title of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “and other diseases” after “Syndrome”.  
   5.      Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” and substituting “Transmittable Diseases”.  
   6.      Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   7.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   8.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   9.      Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “for the presence of antibodies to the virus known as HTLV III” and substituting “to ascertain whether the blood contains any pathogen capable of causing the relevant transmittable disease”.  
   10.     Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   11.     Subsection 8 (1) of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “the prescribed disease” and substituting “a transmittable disease”.  
   12.     The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following section: