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Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Bill

This is the text of the Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 27th January 1999.

 
 
  
Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
Clause 
1.Prophylactic mastectomy registry.
2.Information to be contained in register.
3.Duty of relevant pathologists to submit information to the registry.
4.Regulations.
5.Financial provisions.
6.Short title, commencement and extent.
 

 

 
 
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Establish a United Kingdom registry of women who have undergone prophylactic mastectomy surgery.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
 

Prophylactic mastectomy registry.     1. - (1) A prophylactic mastectomy registry (referred to in this Act as "the registry") shall be established.
 
      (2) The Secretary of State shall be responsible for the maintenance of the registry.
 
      (3) The duty of the registry shall be to maintain and make available a register containing information submitted in accordance with sections 2, 3 and 4 below.
 
Information to be contained in register.     2. In the case of each prophylactic mastectomy operation carried out in the United Kingdom, there shall be recorded in the register-
 
 
    (a) the name of the woman who underwent the operation;
 
    (b) the date, place and nature of the operation; and
 
    (c) the reason or reasons for the operation.
Duty of relevant pathologists to submit information to the registry.     3. It shall be the duty of the relevant pathologist to report upon each prophylactic mastectomy operation to ensure that information concerning that operation is submitted to the registry.
 
Regulations.     4. - (1) The Secretary of State may make regulations-
 
 
    (a) requiring information additional to that prescribed in section 2 (a), (b) and (c) above to be submitted to the registry;
 
    (b) prescribing the form in which information is to be submitted to the registry; and
 
    (c) prescribing any restrictions on public access to information contained on the register which he may consider desirable or necessary to preserve the confidentiality of patients.
      (2) Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
 
Financial provisions.     5. There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State by virtue of this Act.
 
Short title, commencement and extent.     6. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Act 1999.
 
      (2) This Act (apart from this section) shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
 
      (3) This Act extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
 
 

 
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