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Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997
17No access to health record where material given in
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17 No access to health record where material given in
confidence
(1) A record keeper must not give access to a health record or part of a
health record if, under this section, the health record or part of the
record is subject to confidentiality.
(2) A health record, or part of a health record, in relation to a consumer
is subject to confidentiality if it consists of or includes material or
information given in confidence, to the person who wrote the record,
by a person other than—
(a) the consumer; or
(b) a guardian of the consumer; or
(c) a person with parental responsibility for the consumer; or
(d) a health service provider in the course of, or otherwise in relation
to, the provider’s treatment of the consumer.
(3) A health record, or part of a health record, in relation to a consumer
is subject to confidentiality if—
(a) the consumer notifies a record keeper to the effect that the
consumer wants the health record or part of the record, or
information contained in the record or part, to remain
confidential; and
(b) the record keeper marks the record or part of the record
accordingly; and
(c) the consumer—
(i) becomes a legally incompetent person; or
(ii) dies.
(4) In subsection (3):
consumer, for a consumer who has died, does not include a legal
representative of the deceased consumer.
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