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Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 217
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217       Youth Cancer Services                                                                                                                                To provide funding:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) to assist multidisciplinary teams to provide information and support to young people living with cancer and to link them with appropriate services; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) to provide facilities for treatment and support for young people living with cancer, including social and emotional support; and
                                                                                                                                                               (c) to implement a national minimum data set on young people living with cancer; and
                                                                                                                                                               (d) to facilitate access to clinical trials by young people living with cancer; and
                                                                                                                                                               (e) to develop and implement national and local strategies to support the delivery of high quality youth cancer services.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) to give effect to Australia's obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) providing, or incidental to the provision of, medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) involving the collection, compilation, analysis or dissemination of statistics; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.