Bill
Australian Immunisation Register and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-08-16. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-23
- second reading — 2017-03-23
- second reading — 2017-08-08
- other — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-09
- other — 2017-08-09
- third reading — 2017-08-09
- introduced — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-10
- second reading — 2017-08-10
- third reading — 2017-08-10
- passed — 2017-08-10
- royal assent — 2017-08-16
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 2017-03-23.
This bill would widen which doctors can have their medical exemption assessments for vaccinations recognised by the Australian Immunisation Register.
It changes the register's law so that assessments from certain specialists—those who treat children, public health, infectious diseases, and clinical immunology—are accepted, alongside general practitioners.
The bill also clarifies that vaccination information can only come from recognised vaccination providers, not from members of the public, and aligns family assistance benefit rules for medical exemptions.
- Amends the Australian Immunisation Register Act to allow more specialist doctors to have their medical exemption assessments recognised.
- Adds a clarification that only recognised vaccination providers can supply vaccination information under the register's law.
- Updates the Family Assistance Act to keep medical exemption assessments consistent between the register and family assistance benefits.
Medical specialists who assess medical exemptions to vaccination, general practitioners, recognised vaccination providers, and families or individuals involved in family assistance benefits.
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