Singapore legislation

Regulation 3

of National Registry of Diseases (Cancer Notification) Regulations 2009

Regulation 3

Form, time and manner of notification for cancer

For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Act, a notification by the manager of a healthcare institution to the Registrar that a person has been diagnosed with or is undergoing treatment for cancer at the healthcare institution shall —

(a)

contain, in relation to that patient, the information specified in the First Schedule;

(b)

be made in any of the Forms set out in the Second Schedule or at the Registry’s Internet website at http://www.nrdo.gov.sg;

(c)

be sent to the Registrar —

(i)

by hand (including by courier);

(ii)

by registered mail; or

(iii)

by using such secure electronic notification system as may be approved by the Registrar; and

(d)

be made within the following time:

(i)

where the patient has been diagnosed with cancer through a confirmatory diagnostic test, not later than 3 months after the diagnosis of that cancer was first made; or

(ii)

where the patient is undergoing treatment for cancer in the healthcare institution, not later than 3 months after the treatment for that cancer commenced.