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Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997
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6 Compliance with privacy principles
(1) A person to whom a privacy principle applies must not, without
lawful authority, contravene the privacy principle.
(2) A person is taken not to have lawful authority to contravene a privacy
principle unless the person proves that, in the circumstances,
compliance with the privacy principle would have contravened—
(c) an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.