Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 194

194 Powers of health service investigators

(1) A health service investigator may enter a public sector health service facility at any time the facility is open for business or otherwise open for entry.

(2) A health service investigator may, in the exercise of the investigator’s functions, ask an employee of the department or a Service to give to the investigator a document, including a document containing confidential information, that—

(a) is relevant to the investigator’s functions; and

(b) is in the possession or control of the employee.

(3) The employee must comply with the request.

(4) If requested by the employee, the health service investigator must produce the investigator’s instrument of appointment to the employee.

(5) The health service investigator may make copies of, and take extracts from, the document.

(6) In this section—

"confidential information" means any information that—

(a) is about a person who is receiving or has received a public sector health service; and

(b) could identify the person.