Victorian Current Acts

HEALTH RECORDS ACT 2001 - SECT 16

Except as otherwise provided by the Freedom of Information Act 1982 , nothing in Part 5, HPP 5.2 or HPP 6 applies—

        (a)     to a document containing health information, or to the health information contained in a document, that is—

              (i)     a document of an agency within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 ; or

              (ii)     an official document of a Minister within the meaning of that Act—

and access can only be required to be granted to that document or information, and that information can only be corrected, in accordance with the procedures set out in, and in the form required or permitted by, that Act; or

S. 16(b) amended by No. 6/2012 s. 36.

        (b)     to a document containing health information, or to the health information contained in a document, to which access would not be granted under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 because of section 5(3), 6 or 6AA of that Act.