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HEALTH RECORDS ACT 2001 - SECT 15

Publicly available health information

    (1)     Nothing in this Act or in any HPP applies to a document containing health information, or to the health information contained in a document, that is—

(a)     a generally available publication unless the health information has been obtained by contravention of this Act and the organisation which seeks to rely on this exemption knows of the contravention; or

        (b)     kept in a library, art gallery or museum for the purposes of reference, study or exhibition; or

        (c)     a public record under the control of the Keeper of Public Records that is available for public inspection in accordance with the Public Records Act 1973 ; or

        (d)     archives within the meaning of the Copyright Act 1968 of the Commonwealth.

    (2)     Nothing in this Act or in any HPP applies to health information that is generally available to members of the public unless the health information has been obtained by contravention of this Act and the organisation which seeks to rely on this exemption knows of the contravention.



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