New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 13

13 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected

(1) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a court or tribunal, or the manner in which the holder of an office relating to a court or tribunal, exercises the court's, or the tribunal's, judicial functions.

(2) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a Royal Commission, or any Special Commission of Inquiry, exercises the Commission's functions.

(3) In this section,
"judicial functions of a court or tribunal" means such of the functions of the court or tribunal as relate to the hearing or determination of proceedings before it, and includes--

(a) in relation to a justice--such of the functions of the justice as relate to the conduct of committal proceedings, and

(b) in relation to a coroner--such of the functions of the coroner as relate to the conduct of inquests and inquiries under the Coroners Act 2009 .