Victorian Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES REGULATION ACT 2021 (NO. 37 OF 2021) - SECT 209

    (1)     A relevant agency may refuse to give an individual access to that individual's confidential information under a relevant privacy law if the relevant agency believes on reasonable grounds that giving the individual access to the information would increase a risk to the safety of a service user or group of service users.

    (2)     In this section—

"relevant privacy law" means—

        (a)     Health Privacy Principle 6; or

        (b)     Information Privacy Principle 6; or

        (c)     the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth; or

        (d)     the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth applied as a law of Victoria by another Act.