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144A Definitions
***Central Information Point*** has the meaning set out in section 144O;
***CIP data custodian*** has the meaning set out in section 144F;
***CIP purpose*** has the meaning set out in section 144OA;
***CIP request*** has the meaning set out in section 144OC;
***CIP requester*** means an information sharing entity or a class of information sharing entity declared under section 144G;
***confidential information*** means—
(a) health information; or
(b) personal information, including sensitive information; or
(c) unique identifiers; or
(d) identifiers;
***consent*** means express or implied consent;
***excluded information*** has the meaning set out in section 144C;
***family violence assessment purpose*** means the purpose of establishing or assessing the risk of—
(a) a person committing family violence; or
(b) a person being subjected to family violence;
***family violence protection purpose*** means the purpose of managing a risk of—
(a) a person committing family violence and includes the ongoing assessment of the risk of the person committing family violence; or
(b) a person being subjected to family violence and includes the ongoing assessment of the risk of the person being subjected to family violence;
***handling***, in relation to confidential information, has the meaning set out in section 3 of the **Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014** in relation to personal information;
***health information*** has the meaning set out in section 3(1) of the **Health Records Act 2001**;
***identifier*** has the meaning set out in section 3(1) of the **Health Records Act 2001**;
***information sharing entity*** has the meaning set out in section 144D;
***linked person*** means any person whose confidential information is relevant to a family violence assessment purpose or family violence protection purpose other than a person who—
(a) is a primary person; or
(b) is a person of concern; or
(c) is alleged to pose a risk of family violence;
***person of concern*** has the meaning set out in section 144B;
***personal information*** has the meaning set out in section 3 of the **Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014**;
***primary person*** has the meaning set out in section 144E;
***protection entity*** means an information sharing entity that is prescribed to be a protection entity for the purposes of section 144D(2)(b);
***risk assessment entity*** means an information sharing entity that is prescribed to be a risk assessment entity for the purposes of section 144D(2)(a);
***sensitive information*** has the meaning set out in Schedule 1 to the **Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014**;
***unique identifier*** has the meaning set out in Schedule 1 to the **Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014**.
S. 144B inserted by No. 23/2017 s. 7.