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AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 86.4

Disclosure of protected information by people conducting assessments

  (1)   A person to whom powers or functions under Part   2.3 have been delegated under subsection   96 - 2(14), or a person making assessments under section   22 - 4 or 29C - 3, may make a record of, disclose or otherwise use * protected information, relating to a person and acquired in the course of exercising those powers or performing those functions, or making those assessments, for any one or more of the following purposes:

  (a)   provision of * aged care, or other community, health or social services, to the person;

  (b)   assessing the needs of the person for aged care, or other community, health or social services;

  (ba)   if the person is a care recipient--assessing the level of care the person needs, relative to the needs of other care recipients;

  (c)   reporting on, and conducting research into, the level of need for, and access to, aged care, or other community, health or social services;

  (d)   monitoring, reporting on, and conducting research into, the quality or safety of aged care.

  (2)   However, the purposes mentioned in paragraphs   (1)(c) and (d) do not include publication (whether in writing or otherwise) of * personal information.



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