Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024
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82 Sharing of information
(1) In this section –
information-sharing entity means –
(a) a specified person; or
(b) a defined entity; or
(c) a controlling authority of an approved hospital, approved assessment centre or secure mental health unit, each within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2013 ; or
(d) the person in charge of a disability services provider; or
(e) the person in charge of an organisation that receives a referral from the Senior Practitioner or a Community-Based Intake Service, within the meaning of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1997 ; or
(f) the Chief Psychiatrist, within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2013 ; or
(g) the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission; or
(h) the NDIS Commissioner; or
(i) the National Disability Insurance Agency established as the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency by section 117 of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 of the Commonwealth; or
(j) the Health Complaints Commissioner; or
(k) the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner appointed under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 ; or
(l) the Ombudsman; or
(m) Tasmania Police; or
(n) the Independent Regulator appointed under the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Act 2023 ; or
(o) the Commissioner for Children and Young People; or
(p) any other prescribed person or prescribed organisation;
means –