New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 42P

42P Health practitioner to provide information about Register

(1) A health practitioner who carries out a cervical cancer test, or takes a specimen from a woman for the purpose of such a test, is, before carrying out the test or taking the specimen, to provide the woman concerned with details of:

(a) the object of the Register, and

(b) the information that is recorded in the Register, and

(c) the purposes for which that information may be used, and

(d) the way in which the confidentiality of the Register is protected.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the health practitioner’s records indicate that the woman has previously been provided with details of the Register. In that case, however, the health practitioner is to remind the woman of her right to have her identifying particulars removed from the Register.

(3) If the health practitioner’s records do not indicate that the woman has previously been provided with details of the Register, the health practitioner is also to inform the woman:

(a) that she may elect to have her identifying particulars withheld from the Register, and

(b) that if she does not so elect, she may have those particulars removed from the Register at any time after they are recorded in it.