Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 6

    (1)     A person to whom a privacy principle applies must not, without lawful authority, contravene the privacy principle.

    (2)     A person is taken not to have lawful authority to contravene a privacy principle unless the person proves that, in the circumstances, compliance with the privacy principle would have contravened—

        (a)     a law of the Territory; or

        (b)     a law of the Commonwealth; or

        (c)     an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.