Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 161B

161B External service provider may access confidential information under authorisation

(1) An external service provider that is the subject of an authorisation under section 161A , or a person engaged by the service provider, may access the information system under the authorisation.

(2) For the purposes of the Information Privacy Act 2009 , chapter 2 , part 4 —

(a) the external service provider is taken to be a bound contracted service provider; and

(b) the agreement between the chief executive or a Service and the service provider is taken to be a service arrangement; and

(c) the chief executive or the Service, as the case may be, is the contracting agency.