{"id":"F2024L00148","name":"National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024","slug":"national-occupational-respiratory-disease-registry-rules-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442268,"registerId":"F2024L00148-fast-fetch-1775957321908","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nNational Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024\n\nI, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rules.\n\nDated  5 February 2024\n\nMark Butler\n\nMinister for Health and Aged Care\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\nDivision 1—Preliminary\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\nDivision 2—Definitions\n\n4 Definitions\n\n5 Prescribed medical practitioners\n\n6 Prescribed occupational respiratory diseases\n\nPart 2—National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry\n\n7 Period for notifying information—diagnosing prescribed medical practitioner\n\nPart 3—Dealing with information in the National Registry\n\n8 Commonwealth authorities to which minimum notification information included in the National Registry may be disclosed\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\nDivision 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Rules 2024.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The later of:(a) the day after this instrument is registered; and(b) the day the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023 commences.However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. 22 May 2024(paragraph (b) applies)\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023.\n\nDivision 2—Definitions\n\n4  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023.\n\nHealth Practitioner Regulation National Law has the same meaning as National Law has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.\n\n5  Prescribed medical practitioners\n\n  For the purposes of the definition of prescribed medical practitioner in section 8 of the Act, the following kinds of medical practitioners are prescribed:\n\n (a) a medical practitioner registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a specialist in the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine;\n\n (b) a medical practitioner registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a specialist in the specialty of respiratory and sleep medicine.\n\n6  Prescribed occupational respiratory diseases\n\n  For the purposes of the definition of prescribed occupational respiratory disease in section 8 of the Act, an occupational respiratory disease mentioned in the following table is prescribed.\n\n \n\n| Item | Occupational respiratory disease |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Silicosis |\n\n\n \n\nPart 2—National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry\n\n \n\n7  Period for notifying information—diagnosing prescribed medical practitioner\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 14(1) of the Act, the period within which a prescribed medical practitioner who diagnoses an individual with a prescribed occupational respiratory disease must notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer of the minimum notification information in relation to the individual is 30 days after the day the practitioner makes the diagnosis.\n\nPart 3—Dealing with information in the National Registry\n\n \n\n8  Commonwealth authorities to which minimum notification information included in the National Registry may be disclosed\n\n  For the purposes of paragraph 22(1)(a) of the Act, the following Commonwealth authorities are prescribed:\n\n (a) the Australian Bureau of Statistics;\n\n (b) the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not itself amend the Act; it prescribes particulars authorised by the Act — namely the practitioner classes, the listed occupational respiratory disease (silicosis), the 30‑day notification period, and named Commonwealth disclosure recipients. On its face it narrows operational coverage to those particulars but does not change the statutory scope set out in the parent Act."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, tightly specified scope — only one prescribed disease (silicosis) (s 6).","Notification duty placed on defined specialist practitioner classes (s 5) which limits who must act.","Single, short statutory deadline to notify (30 days) creates clear compliance timing (s 7).","Limited list of Commonwealth disclosure recipients (ABS and AIHW) simplifies data-sharing rules (s 8).","Dependence on terms and obligations defined in the parent Act (and defined terms such as 'minimum notification information') increases interpretive reliance on the Act (s 3; definitions cross-referenced).","Commencement is conditional on the parent Act commencing, so implementation timing is dependent on external event (s 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"These Rules set the practical reporting requirements for the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry: who must report, which disease is covered, the reporting timeframe, and which Commonwealth agencies may receive the registry’s minimum notification data. They require specialist practitioners in occupational and environmental medicine or respiratory and sleep medicine to notify diagnosed cases of silicosis to the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer within 30 days, and permit disclosure of minimum notification information to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (ss 5–8)."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Rules remain tightly scoped to their original purpose: operationalizing the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023. They do exactly what the parent Act anticipates — prescribing which doctors must report, which diseases are notifiable, the reporting timeframe, and which agencies may receive data. There is no scope creep; the instrument is deliberately narrow and administrative in nature."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument — only 8 sections across 3 Parts","Minimal defined terms — only 2 explicit definitions in section 4, with 2 additional prescription sections (5 and 6) that function as definitional provisions","No nested exceptions or conditional logic — straightforward prescriptive rules","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the parent Act and the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law","Simple structure: definitions → reporting obligation → data disclosure","Single operational requirement (30-day reporting period) and single list of authorized data recipients"],"plain_english_summary":"These Rules establish the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry — a national database for tracking serious work‑related lung disease. Specialist doctors (occupational/environmental medicine or respiratory/sleep medicine) must notify the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer of silicosis diagnoses within 30 days. The Registry can share minimum case data with the Australian Bureau of Statistics and AIHW for research and statistics. It helps monitor silicosis trends, target prevention, and support public‑health responses while limiting access to protect privacy."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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