Statutory Rules 1984 No. 2891
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Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality)
Regulations2 (Amendment)
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Act 1981.
Dated 11 October 1984.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd) Neal Blewett
Minister of State for Health
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Regulation 3 of the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:
Declaration of studies
“3. For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘prescribed study’ in sub-section 3 (1) of the Act, each of the following Commonwealth epidemiological studies is declared to be a study to which the Act applies:
(a) the Commonwealth epidemiological study that commenced in 1981 on those persons who were employed, whether in Australia or not, in relation to the Atomic Weapons Test Programme conducted by the United Kingdom in Australia at the Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, and at the Emu Claypan and Maralinga, South Australia, between 1 January 1952 and 31 December 1967;
(b) the epidemiological study in relation to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome conducted on behalf of the Commonwealth by the National Health and Medical Research Council, being the study that commenced in 1983.”.
S.R. 248/84 Cat. No. Recommended retail price 20c 10/28.8.1984
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 October 1984.
2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 371.
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