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.