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PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 6FA

Meaning of health information

                   The following information is health information :

                     (a)  information or an opinion about:

                              (i)  the health, including an illness, disability or injury, (at any time) of an individual; or

                             (ii)  an individual's expressed wishes about the future provision of health services to the individual; or

                            (iii)  a health service provided, or to be provided, to an individual;

                            that is also personal information;

                     (b)  other personal information collected to provide, or in providing, a health service to an individual;

                     (c)  other personal information collected in connection with the donation, or intended donation, by an individual of his or her body parts, organs or body substances;

                     (d)  genetic information about an individual in a form that is, or could be, predictive of the health of the individual or a genetic relative of the individual.



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