Children and Community Services Regulations 2006

In this Part —

bodily sample is not limited to a sample of blood;

donor means a person required to provide a bodily sample for the purposes of a parentage testing procedure;

guardian, in relation to a represented person, means a person appointed as a guardian of the person under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 section 43;

HLA means human leucocyte antigen;

medical practitioner means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the medical profession;

NATA means the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia;

nominated reporter means the person nominated by a laboratory to prepare a report relating to the information obtained as a result of carrying out a parentage testing procedure at that laboratory;

report means a report in accordance with regulation 16L;

represented person means a person in respect of whom a guardianship order made under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 is in force;

responsible person, for a child, means —

sample means a sample taken from a donor for the purposes of a parentage testing procedure;

sampler means a person who takes a bodily sample from a donor for the purposes of a parentage testing procedure;

testing means the implementation, or any part of the implementation, of a parentage testing procedure.

[Regulation 16A inserted: Gazette 28 Jan 2011 p. 243-4.]