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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 259

259 Duty of director to provide information

(1) The director of a pathology laboratory, who receives a request to test a Pap smear, histological sample or HPV sample obtained from a woman, must give the woman's identifying and clinical information, as required under a regulation, to the chief executive.

(2) The director must give the information to the chief executive no later than 4 weeks after the results of the tests are given to the person who asked for the test.

(3) However, if the request for the test of the Pap smear, histological sample or HPV sample includes a notation that the woman's identifying and clinical information must not be given to the chief executive, the director must not give the information to the chief executive.



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