1st Session, 43rd Legislature
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Bill 221
THE EARLIER SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER ACT
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(Assented to )
HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
1 In this Act, "minister" means the minister responsible for the administration of The Public Health Act.
2 The minister must develop and implement a plan to ensure that the initial eligibility age for routine breast cancer screening services without a referral — as provided through the BreastCheck program of CancerCare Manitoba or the successor to that program — is lowered from 50 years of age to 40 years of age by no later than December 31, 2026.
3(1) Within six months after the end of each fiscal year of the government, the minister must prepare and publish a report on the status of the plan referred to in section 2.
3(2) The report must include the number of screening mammograms performed in Manitoba during that fiscal year.
3(3) The minister must table a copy of the report in the Assembly on any of the first 15 days on which the Assembly is sitting after the minister completes it.
Application after screening age lowered
3(4) This section ceases to apply five years after the day the initial eligibility age for routine breast cancer screening services without a referral is lowered to 40 years of age.
4 This Act may be referred to as chapter E2 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
5 This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.