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HEALTH RECORDS ACT 2001 - SECT 14C

Information sharing under the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005

    (1)     Nothing in HPP 1.3, or any applicable code of practice modifying the application of HPP 1.3 or prescribing how HPP 1.3 is to be applied or complied with, applies to the collection of health information by an information sharing entity or a restricted information sharing entity for the purposes of Part 6A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 or by a Child Link user or the Secretary to the Department of Education and Training for the purposes of Part 7A of that Act.

    (2)     Nothing in HPP 1.5, or any applicable code of practice modifying the application of HPP 1.5 or prescribing how HPP 1.5 is to be applied or complied with, applies to the collection of health information by an information sharing entity or a restricted information sharing entity for the purposes of Part 6A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 , to the extent that the application of, or compliance with, HPP 1.5 would be contrary to the promotion of the wellbeing or safety of a child to whom the information relates.

    (3)     Nothing in HPP 1.5, or any applicable code of practice modifying the application of HPP 1.5 or prescribing how HPP 1.5 is to be applied or complied with, applies to the collection of health information by a Child Link user or the Secretary to the Department of Education and Training for the purposes of Part 7A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 .

    (4)     Nothing in HPP 4.3, or any applicable code of practice modifying the application of HPP 4.3 or prescribing how HPP 4.3 is to be applied or complied with, applies to the deletion of health information by the Secretary to the Department of Education and Training for the purposes of Part 7A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 .

    (5)     Nothing in an HPP, or any applicable code of practice modifying the application of an HPP or prescribing how an HPP is to be applied or complied with, applies to the collection, use or disclosure of health information by an information sharing entity or a restricted information sharing entity for the purposes of Part 6A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 , or by a Child Link user or the Secretary to the Department of Education and Training for the purposes of Part 7A of that Act, to the extent that the HPP requires the consent of the person to whom the health information relates for the collection, use or disclosure of that information.

    (6)     In this section—

"Child Link user" has the same meaning as in the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 ;

"information sharing entity" has the same meaning as in the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 ;

restricted information sharing entity has the same meaning as in the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 .

S. 14D inserted by No. 34/2019 s. 86.



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