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HEALTH RECORDS ACT 2001 - SECT 20

Application of HPPs

    (1)     HPP 1 applies only in relation to health information collected after the commencement of this section.

    (2)     HPP 3, to the extent that it applies to the collection of health information, applies only in relation to health information collected after the commencement of this section.

    (3)     HPP 6 applies to health information as specified in section 25.

    (4)     The remaining Health Privacy Principles (including HPP 3 to the extent that it applies to the use, holding or disclosure of health information) apply in relation to all health information, whether collected by the organisation before or after the commencement of this section.

    (5)     HPP 8 applies only in relation to transactions entered into after the commencement of this section.

S. 20(6) inserted by No. 14/2002 s. 49.

    (6)     To avoid doubt it is declared that, despite the commencement of section 19 and Schedule 1 on 1 March 2002, an act or practice that occurs at any time before the commencement of Part 6 does not constitute an interference with the privacy of an individual

        (a)     about which a complaint may be made under section 45(1); or

S. 20(6)(b) amended by No. 22/2016 s. 179.

        (b)     that may be dealt with in any way by the Health Complaints Commissioner under this Act, including by the service of a compliance notice under section 66(1)—

whether before or after the commencement of that Part.



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