Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 781

781 Disclosure to identify and offer support to victims

(1) This section applies to an employee of the department, a Hospital and Health Service or another government entity.

(2) The employee may use or disclose personal information—

(a) to offer support services to a person who is, or may be, a victim; or

(b) to assist in the identification of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) for the purpose mentioned in that paragraph.

(3) In this section—

"victim" means—

(a) a victim of an unlawful act committed by a person who has, or may have, a mental condition; or

(b) a close relative of a victim mentioned in paragraph (a) ; or

(c) another individual who has suffered harm because of an unlawful act mentioned in paragraph (a) .