Bill
National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-10-20. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-08-31
- second reading — 2016-08-31
- second reading — 2016-09-13
- second reading — 2016-10-11
- second reading — 2016-10-11
- third reading — 2016-10-11
- introduced — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-13
- second reading — 2016-10-13
- committee — 2016-10-13
- third reading — 2016-10-13
- passed — 2016-10-13
- royal assent — 2016-10-20
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 2016-08-31.
This bill makes changes to other laws so a new national cancer screening database can operate.
It would allow the transfer of bowel and cervical screening data from state and territory registers to the new national register.
The changes would start on the same day as the main register bill, but only if that bill becomes law.
- Amends the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 to allow disclosure of information to the new register.
- Amends the Health Insurance Act 1973 to allow disclosure of Medicare data to the new register.
- Exempts information in the new register from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
- Authorises states and territories to transfer cervical screening data to the new register.
State and territory cervical screening registers, the Australian Immunisation Register, Medicare, and participants in the National Cervical Screening Program and National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.
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