ACT Government legislation is located on the ACT Legislation Register website.
Health Directorate publications are listed in the Publications section of this website.
Policies, plans, strategies and guidelines, and ACT legislation are not listed here. To locate Health Directorate policy documents, visit the Policies and Plans section of this website.
In this section:
Legislation administered by the Health Directorate
Health Directorate administers the following Acts:
- Blood Donation (Transmittable Diseases) Act 1985
- Drugs of Dependence Act 1989, except section 123 and section 140
- Epidemiological Studies (Confidentiality) Act 1992
- Food Act 2001
- Gene Technology Act 2003
- Gene Technology (GM Crop Moratorium) Act 2004
- Health Act 1993
- Health Professionals Act 2004
- Health Professionals (Special Events Exemptions) Act 2000
- Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997
- Human Cloning and Embryo Research Act 2004
- Intoxicated People (Care and Protection) Act 1994
- Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 994, except part 3, part 8, part 9, section 141, section 142 and section 143
- Poisons Act 1933
- Poisons and Drugs Act 1978
- Public Health Act 1997
- Public Health (Prohibited Drugs) Act 1957
- Radiation Protection Act 2006
- Smoking (Prohibition in Enclosed Public Places) Act 2003
- Supervised Injecting Place Trial Act 1999, except section 7, section 8 and section 13
- Tobacco Act 1927
- Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1978
