Bill
Australian Immunisation Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-11-12. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-09-10
- second reading — 2015-09-10
- second reading — 2015-10-12
- second reading — 2015-10-12
- third reading — 2015-10-12
- introduced — 2015-10-13
- second reading — 2015-10-13
- second reading — 2015-10-15
- second reading — 2015-10-15
- third reading — 2015-10-15
- passed — 2015-10-15
- royal assent — 2015-11-12
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-09-10.
This bill makes the legal changes needed when the new Australian Immunisation Register Act takes effect.
It would repeal old register rules in existing Acts, adjust definitions, and apply the new register law to several programs.
The bill starts when the main register bill receives Royal Assent, and its transitional rules begin in three phases, with nothing starting if the main bill never commences.
- It would remove the childhood immunisation register provisions from the Health Insurance Act and update that Act's disclosure rules.
- It would delete the HPV register provision from the National Health Act.
- It would exempt register information from freedom of information requests by adding the new Act to the relevant schedule.
- It would align the definition of a recognised immunisation provider with the new register bill.
- It would update the healthcare identifiers law to refer to the new register instead of the old childhood register.
- It would name the new register Act as a designated program Act under several human services and child support laws.
The affected parties are health care providers, individuals receiving vaccinations, and the agencies that manage immunisation records and related programs.
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