Title: South Australian Health Commission (Cancer)Regulations 1991
Subject: South Australian Health CommissionAct 1976
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: historical
Document comments: 12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006

Historical version: 12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—Regulations revoked

South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—revoked

revoked—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991

South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—revoked
Schedule—Form for reporting of cancer

revoked—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991
Form for reporting of cancer—Schedule

South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—revoked
Legislative history

revoked—12.6.2003 to 31.8.2006—South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991
Legislative history

South Australia
South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991
under the South Australian Health Commission Act 1976

Contents
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
4	Hospital's obligation to report
5	Pathology laboratory's obligation to report
Schedule—Form for reporting of cancer
Legislative history

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991.
2—Commencement
These regulations will come into operation on 1 July 1991.
3—Interpretation
In these regulations—
cancer means a malignant growth of human tissue which if unchecked is likely to spread to adjacent tissue or beyond its place of origin and which has the propensity to recur, and includes carcinoma, sarcoma, any mixed tumour, leukaemia, any type of lymphoma or melanoma but excludes any type of neoplasm of the skin other than melanoma.
4—Hospital's obligation to report
Where a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from a cancer is an inpatient or outpatient of a hospital, the person responsible for the management of the hospital must furnish the Minister with a report in the form set out in the Schedule within one calendar month after any of the following events takes place:
	(a)	the patient first commences radiotherapy treatment at the hospital;
	(b)	the patient is discharged from the hospital (whether or not the patient is transferred to another hospital);
	(c)	the patient dies in the hospital.
5—Pathology laboratory's obligation to report
Where a pathology laboratory prepares a report in relation to a person suffering from a cancer, the person in charge of the laboratory must, within one month after completion of the report, furnish the Minister with a copy of the report.

Schedule—Form for reporting of cancer

Legislative history
Notes
	•	For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes.
Revocation of regulations
The South Australian Health Commission (Cancer) Regulations 1991 were revoked by Sch 1 of the South Australian Health Commission (Cancer Reporting) Regulations 2006 on 1.9.2006.
Principal regulations and variations
Year | No | Reference | Commencement
1991 | 73 | Gazette 6.6.1991 p1832 | 1.7.1991: r 2
2000 | 168 | Gazette 6.7.2000 p41 | 6.7.2000: r 2
2003 | 147 | Gazette 12.6.2003 p2500 | 12.6.2003: r 2
Provisions varied
Provision | How varied | Commencement
r 4 | varied by 168/2000 r 3 | 6.7.2000
r 5 | varied by 168/2000 r 4 | 6.7.2000
Sch | heading substituted by 147/2003 Sch 1 | 12.6.2003

[31.8.2006] This version is not published under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002

This version is not published under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002 [31.8.2006]