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Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002
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#### 6 Definition of “health information”
6 Definition of “health information”
> In this Act, health information means—
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> > (a) personal information that is information or an opinion about—
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> > > (i) the physical or mental health or a disability (at any time) of an individual, or
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> > > (ii) an individual’s express wishes about the future provision of health services to him or her, or
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> > > (iii) a health service provided, or to be provided, to an individual, or
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> > (b) other personal information collected to provide, or in providing, a health service, or
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> > (c) other personal information about an individual collected in connection with the donation, or intended donation, of an individual’s body parts, organs or body substances, or
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> > (d) other personal information that is genetic information about an individual arising from a health service provided to the individual in a form that is or could be predictive of the health (at any time) of the individual or of a genetic relative of the individual, or
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> > (e) healthcare identifiers,
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> but does not include health information, or a class of health information or health information contained in a class of documents, that is prescribed as exempt health information for the purposes of this Act generally or for the purposes of specified provisions of this Act.
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> **s 6:** Am 2010 No 96, Sch 3 \[2\]; 2012 No 39, Sch 1.2 \[2\].