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Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Operation of NCSP

112H: Duties of NCSP manager when women cancel enrolment in NCSP

You could also call this:

"What happens when you cancel your enrolment in the National Cervical Screening Programme"

If you cancel your enrolment in the NCSP under section 112G(1), or tell the NCSP manager you do not want to be enrolled, the NCSP manager must send you a notice to confirm your enrolment has been cancelled. They must also delete any information about you from the current NCSP register and get rid of any hard copy information about you by either returning it to you or destroying it if you ask them to.

The NCSP manager must not include any new information about you on the NCSP register while you are not enrolled, and they must return or destroy any new information they get about you. However, they can keep some basic information about you, like your name and date of birth, if they need it to make sure your results are not entered on the register.

The NCSP manager might keep some hard copy information about you if it was received before this law started, even if you cancel your enrolment. This law overrides the Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996, which means it is more important than those regulations when it comes to keeping your health information.

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Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Operation of NCSP

112HDuties of NCSP manager when women cancel enrolment in NCSP

  1. If a woman cancels her enrolment in the NCSP under section 112G(1), or notifies the NCSP manager that she does not wish to be enrolled under section 112G(2), the NCSP manager must—

  2. send a notice to the woman confirming that her enrolment in the NCSP has been cancelled or, as the case requires, that she will not be enrolled; and
    1. delete any information that relates to that woman from the current NCSP register; and
      1. dispose of any information that is held by the NCSP manager in hard copy format and that relates to that woman by either—
        1. returning it to her; or
          1. destroying it (if she requests that it be destroyed); and
          2. while that woman is not enrolled in the NCSP,—
            1. ensure that no information that is provided to the NCSP and that relates to that woman is included on the NCSP register; and
              1. return or destroy any information that is provided to the NCSP and that relates to that woman.

              2. Subsection (1) does not apply to information that the NCSP manager determines it is necessary to keep for the purpose of identifying the woman as a woman whose results must not be entered on the NCSP register, such as, for example, her name, address, date of birth, and national health index number, but the information that is retained must be no more than is required for that purpose.

              3. Despite subsection (1)(c), the NCSP manager may retain information that relates to a woman who cancels her enrolment in the NCSP if that information—

              4. is in hard copy format; and
                1. was received before the date of commencement of this section.

                  1. To avoid any doubt, subsection (1) overrides the Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996 (SR 1996/343).

                  Notes
                  • Section 112H: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).