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Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997
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36 Regulation-making power
(1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act.
(2) The regulations may—
(a) extend, by not more than 21 days, the time within which
something must or may be done for this Act; or
(b) make provision about the keeping and transfer of health records;
or
(c) prescribe qualifications to be held, or other requirements to be
met, by record keepers in relation to possession or control of
health records.
(3) A regulation may make provision about a matter by applying,
adopting or incorporating an instrument as in force from time to time
for the privacy principles, principle 10, clause 3 (which is about the
disclosure of a health record for the purpose of research or the
compilation or analysis of statistics).
Note A reference to an instrument includes a reference to a provision of an
instrument (see Legislation Act, s 14 (2)).
(4) The regulations may also prescribe offences for contraventions of the
regulations and may prescribe maximum penalties of not more than
10 penalty units for offences against the regulations.