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AUSTRALIAN IMMUNISATION REGISTER ACT 2015 (NO. 138, 2015) - SECT 4

Definitions

                   In this Act:

"ACI register " means the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register.

"approved form " means a form approved under subsection 29(1).

"arrangement " includes a contract or deed.

"Chief Executive Medicare " has the same meaning as in the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973 .

"commercial-in-confidence " has the meaning given by section 5.

"family assistance " has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 .

"general practitioner " has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973 .

"parent " : without limiting who is a parent of anyone for the purposes of this Act, a person is the parent of another person if the other person is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 .

"personal information " has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 .

"prescribed body " means a person prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this definition.

"protected information " means personal information, relevant identifying information or information that is commercial-in-confidence, to the extent that this information:

                     (a)  is obtained under, or in accordance with, this Act; or

                     (b)  is derived from a record of information that was made under, or in accordance with, this Act; or

                     (c)  is derived from a disclosure or use of information that was made under, or in accordance with, this Act.

"purposes of the ACI register " means the purposes set out in section 10.

"recognised vaccination provider " means:

                     (a)  a general practitioner; or

                     (b)  an individual, or body, endorsed to administer vaccines in Australia, if the endorsement:

                              (i)  is for purposes that include the purposes of the ACI register; and

                             (ii)  is by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

"relevant identifying information " for an individual means the following:

                     (a)  the individual's name, contact details, date of birth, gender and Indigenous status;

                     (b)  the individual's medicare number (within the meaning of Part VII of the National Health Act 1953 ) (if any);

                     (c)  the individual's healthcare identifier (within the meaning of the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 ) (if any);

                     (d)  the name and contact details of a parent or guardian of the individual if the individual is incapable of managing his or her health affairs;

                     (e)  any other information of a kind prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this definition that identifies the individual.

"relevant vaccination " means a vaccination administered:

                     (a)  in Australia; or

                     (b)  outside Australia, if information about the vaccination is given to a recognised vaccination provider.

"rules " means the rules made under section 31.

"vaccine preventable disease " means a disease listed as a vaccine preventable disease in the latest edition of the Australian Immunisation Handbook published by the Government Printer.

Note:          The Handbook could in 2015 be viewed on the Department's website (http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/
publishing.nsf/Content/Handbook10-home).

"young individual " means an individual under the age of 20 years.



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