Cervical Screening Register
5 Cervical Screening Register
The CEO is to keep a register to be known as the Cervical Screening Register.
The Register is to contain —
a compilation of results, or copies of results, of cervical cancer tests —
forwarded under regulation 9 (before it was deleted by the Health Regulations Amendment (Cervical Screening Register) Regulations 2018 regulation 7); or
disclosed to the CEO by the officer in charge of a corresponding register in accordance with the law of the Commonwealth or the State or Territory in which that register is established;
and
other information forwarded to the CEO under regulation 10A.
The register is to be kept for the following purposes —
to reduce the number of illnesses and deaths caused by, or related to, cervical cancer;
to reduce the number of cervical cancer cases;
to plan, monitor and evaluate services for the prevention and alleviation of cervical cancer and the care of persons with cervical cancer or its precursors in Western Australia;
to compile and publish general statistical information relating to cervical cancer and screening for cervical cancer;
to carry out research into the causes of cervical cancer and the effectiveness of prevention, screening and treatment services.
[Regulation 5 inserted: Gazette 23 May 2014 p. 1632-3; amended: Gazette 10 Apr 2018 p. 1248.]
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