63Requesting medical information

63 Requesting medical information

(1)  In this section –

prescribed authority has the same meaning as in section 61 .

(2)  A prescribed authority may request the parent of a child to provide medical information about the child, or a consent or authority authorising the prescribed authority to have access to that information, for the following purposes:

(a) to assess whether the enrolment or continued enrolment of the child in a school is likely to constitute a risk, because of the behaviour of the child, to the health and safety of the child or any student, teacher or other person at the school;

(b) to develop and maintain strategies to support the child's access to education and eliminate or ameliorate any risk of the kind specified in paragraph (a) .

(3)  A request under subsection (2)  –

(a) is to be in writing; and

(b) may request that the information specified in the request, or the consent or authority, be provided within the reasonable period specified in the request.

(4)  A prescribed authority must not use or disclose any medical information obtained from a child's parent, or by the use of the consent or authority provided by the child's parent, for any purposes other than the purposes for which it was obtained.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.