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Public Health Act 1997
42FAlteration of appliances—offence
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42F Alteration of appliances—offence
(1) A person who performs a licensable public health risk procedure must
not, except in accordance with an approval under section 42G, make
a procedure appliance alteration if the alteration would increase the
public health risk associated with the procedure.
(2) For subsection (1), a procedure appliance alteration is taken to
increase the public health risk associated with a public health risk
procedure if there are reasonable grounds for the person who
performs the procedure to believe that the alteration would increase
the risk (irrespective of the person’s actual belief).