Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165BT

    (1)     The Minister may apply to the Information Commissioner, in writing, for a determination (a pandemic information determination ) under section 165BU(1) in relation to either or both of the following in respect of information that is collected, held, managed, used, disclosed or transferred for the purposes of this Part—

        (a)     an act or a practice of an organisation that contravenes or may contravene a specified Information Privacy Principle or an approved code of practice within the meaning of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 ;

        (b)     an act or a practice of an organisation that contravenes or may contravene a specified Health Privacy Principle.

    (2)     An application for a pandemic information determination must specify—

        (a)     the act or practice to which the determination would apply; and

        (b)     the persons or organisations to which the determination would apply; and

        (c)     the Information Privacy Principle, approved code of practice or Health Privacy Principle to which the application relates; and

        (d)     the reasons for seeking the determination.

    (3)     A pandemic information determination may relate to personal information or health information or both.

S. 165BU inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 12.