Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 (NO. 70 OF 1997) - SCHEDULE 3

    SCHEDULE 3     Subsection 44 (1)        

REFERENCES TO INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (AMENDMENTS OF ACTS)

Clinical Waste Act 1990

Subsection 3 (1) (definition of “clinical waste”, paragraph (c))—

Omit all the words after “person”, substitute “who has a transmissible notifiable condition within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1997 ”.

Subsection 3 (1) (definition of “clinical waste”, paragraph (d))—

Omit the paragraph.

Cremation Act 1966

Subsection 9 (1)—

Omit the subsection.

Food Act 1992

Paragraph 84 (3) (a)—

Omit “infectious diseases”, substitute “transmissible notifiable conditions within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1997 ”.

Motor Traffic Act 1936

Subsection 35 (1)—

Omit “is suffering from any infectious disease”, substitute “has a transmissible notifiable condition”.

Subsection 35 (2)—

Omit “was, while in the public motor vehicle, private hire car or restricted hire vehicle, suffering from any infectious disease”, substitute “, while travelling therein, had a transmissible notifiable condition”.

Subsection 35 (3)—

Omit “was suffering from the infectious disease”, substitute “had the transmissible notifiable condition”.

Subsection 35 (4)—

Omit “suffering from any infectious disease”, substitute “while the person had a transmissible notifiable condition”.

Section 35—

Add at the end the following subsection:

“(5) In this section—