Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Act 1981.

Dated 10 August 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE

Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)¹

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 225²

made under the

Contents

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                        1  Name of Regulations                                                         2

                        2  Commencement                                                                2

                        3  Amendment of Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Regulations  2

Schedule 1           Amendments                                                                    3

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1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3              Amendment of Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Regulations

                Schedule 1 amends the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Regulations.

Schedule 1        Amendments

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[1]         Regulation 1

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1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Regulations 1982.

[2]         Paragraph 3 (j)

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1988.

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1988;

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               (k)    the epidemiological study in relation to persons affected by 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, being the study conducted on behalf of the Commonwealth by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs that commenced in July 2000.

Notes

1.       These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1982 No. 371, as amended by 1984 No. 289; 1987 No. 164; 1988 Nos. 204 and 315.

2.       Made by the Governor-General on 10 August 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 August 2000.