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Version status: Published
Version date: 18 October 2022 - onwards

1. Interpretation

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 18 October 2022 by Seanad Éireann

 In this Act-

"discrimination" under this Act means any differential treatment as against a survivor of cancer in the provision of financial services arising from that person’s diagnosis with cancer;

"survivor of cancer" means-

(a) a person who has been diagnosed with cancer, and at the time of said diagnosis was under the age of 21, but has not required treatment by a medical practitioner in relation to that diagnosis for a continuous period of five years or more, or

(b) a person who has been diagnosed with cancer, and at the time of said diagnosis was over the age of 21, but has not required treatment by a medical practitioner in relation to that diagnosis for a continuous period of five years or more.