Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023A00095:section:14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023A00095
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14
Character Range: 20782–22811

14  Notifying information about prescribed occupational respiratory diseases—diagnosing prescribed medical practitioner

Minimum notification information must be notified
 (1) If:
 (a) a prescribed medical practitioner diagnoses an individual with an occupational respiratory disease at or after the commencement of this Act; and
 (b) at the time the diagnosis is made, the occupational respiratory disease is a prescribed occupational respiratory disease;
the prescribed medical practitioner must notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, in an approved form and by the time, or within the period, prescribed by the rules, of the minimum notification information in relation to the individual.
Note 1: For minimum notification information, see subsection 12(2).
Note 2: The prescribed medical practitioner may, with the individual's consent, also notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, in an approved form, of additional information in relation to the individual (see subsection (5)).
 (2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not the individual consents to the notification of the information under that subsection.

Civil penalty provision
 (3) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Civil penalty: 30 penalty units.

Continuing contraventions
 (4) Subsection 93(2) of the Regulatory Powers Act does not apply in relation to a contravention of subsection (1) of this section.

Additional information may be notified
 (5) A prescribed medical practitioner who notifies minimum notification information in relation to an individual under subsection (1) may, with the individual's consent, also notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, in an approved form, of some or all of the following:
 (a) the additional notification information in relation to the individual;
 (b) other information (if any) in relation to the individual determined under subsection 12(4) for the purposes of paragraph 12(1)(c).
Note: For additional notification information, see subsection 12(3).