{"id":"F2016L00094","name":"My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016","slug":"my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":438541,"registerId":"F2016L00094-fast-fetch-1775954924750","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n \n\n ![](image.001.png)\n\nMy Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016\n\nMy Health Records Act 2012\n\nI, SUSSAN LEY, Minister for Health, make this Rule under subclause 1(1), and subparagraphs 5(2)(c)(i) and 13(2)(c)(i), of Schedule 1 to the My Health Records Act 2012.\n\nDated             2010\n\nDated      2/2/16            \n\nSUSSAN LEY\n\nMinister for Health\n\n \n\n#### Contents\n\n \n\n \n\nPart 1 Preliminary\n\n1. Name of Rule\n\n2. Commencement\n\n3. Definitions\n\nPart 2 Trials of opt-out registration\n\n4. Classes of healthcare recipients\n\n5. Period to opt-out of registration\n\n6. Period within which to make initial election on disclosure of health information\n\nPart 1 Preliminary\n\n# 1.                 Name of Rule\n\nThis Rule is the My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016.\n\n# 2.                 Commencement\n\n(1)     Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n(2)     Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n# 3.                 Definitions\n\nIn this Rule, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\nAct means the My Health Records Act 2012.\n\nMedicare Address means the mailing address held by Medicare for correspondence with a healthcare recipient.\n\nNote: Unless the contrary intention appears, terms used in this My Health Records (Opt-Out Trials) Rule has the same meaning as in the Act― see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. \n\nPart 2 Trials of opt-out registration\n\n# 4.                      Classes of healthcare recipients\n\nFor the purposes of subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act, Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act applies to the classes of healthcare recipients who, on 3 March 2016, have a Medicare Address with a postcode listed in column 2 of the following table.\n\n \n\n- Trial sites for opt-out registration\n- Column 1Opt-out Trial Area Name Column 2Postcodes Inclusive\n- Northern QueenslandPrimary Health Network 4705470747214737 to 47464750 to 4751 4753 to 47544756 to 47574798 to 48124814 to 48224849 to 485048524854 to 48564858 to 486148654868 to 488848924895\n- Nepean Blue MountainsPrimary Health Network 2178255527452747 to 27502753 to 276027652773 to 27802782 to 2787279027952845 to 2850\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n# 5.                      Period to opt-out of registration\n\nFor the purpose of subparagraph 5(2)(c)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Act, if a healthcare recipient who is a member of a class of healthcare recipients prescribed under Rule 4  gives notice to the System Operator electing not to be registered for a My Health Record, the period within which the notice must be given commences on 4 April 2016 and ends on 27 May 2016.\n\n# 6.                      Period within which to make initial election on disclosure of health information\n\n(1)     This Rule is made for the purpose of subparagraph 13(2)(c)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Act, and applies to healthcare recipients:\n\n(a)               who are a member of a class of healthcare recipients prescribed under Rule 4; and\n\n(b)               who have not elected to opt-out of registration within the period prescribed under Rule 5. \n\n(2)     If a healthcare recipient elects not to have health information about the healthcare recipient held by the Chief Executive Medicare made available to the System Operator, the healthcare recipient’s initial election must be given to the System Operator within the period commencing on 28 May 2016 and ending on 14 July 2016.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument set up time-limited opt-out trials in 2016 and has not been amended; it is now spent."},"complexity_factors":["Defines classes of healthcare recipients by referencing specific postcode lists and a snapshot date","Creates temporary trial periods that have expired, making the rule spent"],"plain_english_summary":"The My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016 authorized a time‑limited opt‑out trial for creating My Health Records for people who, on 3 March 2016, had a Medicare mailing address in specified postcodes within Northern Queensland and Nepean Blue Mountains PHN regions. It set short windows in 2016 to opt out and to consent to Medicare-held information being shared with the System Operator. The rule applied only to that trial and is now spent; it imposes no current obligations."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016","history":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016/history","analysis":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/my-health-records-opt-out-trials-rule-2016/documents"}}