Bill
National Cancer Screening Register Amendment Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-05-30. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-03-21
- second reading — 2024-03-21
- second reading — 2024-03-26
- other — 2024-03-26
- second reading — 2024-03-27
- second reading — 2024-03-27
- other — 2024-03-27
- third reading — 2024-03-27
- introduced — 2024-05-14
- second reading — 2024-05-14
- second reading — 2024-05-16
- second reading — 2024-05-16
- third reading — 2024-05-16
- passed — 2024-05-16
- royal assent — 2024-05-30
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 2024-03-21.
The bill would add lung cancer to the conditions tracked by the National Cancer Screening Register.
It would let the Register collect, use and share screening participants' information to manage their lung cancer screening from July 2025.
Eligible individuals are those aged 50 to 70 years who have smoked at least 30 pack-years and, if they have quit, did so within the last 10 years.
- Adds lung cancer as a designated cancer to the Register's coverage.
- Provides the legislative basis for the Register to handle lung cancer screening data.
- Extends existing privacy protections in the Act to lung cancer information.
Asymptomatic Australians aged 50 to 70 with a history of heavy smoking, their healthcare providers, and the operator of the National Cancer Screening Register.
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