259Health Secretary may collect information

259 Health Secretary may collect information

(1) The Health Secretary may collect the health information, personal information, or the identifier or unique identifier of an individual from a body specified in subsection (2) for the purposes of—

(a) performing the Health Secretary's functions or exercising the Health Secretary's powers under this Act; and

(b) facilitating the performance of functions or the exercise of powers under this Act by—

(i) the chief psychiatrist; and

(ii) the Chief Officer; and

(iii) a regional mental health and wellbeing board.

(c) a public entity (within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004);

(e) a body prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition of data sharing body in section 3(1) of the Victorian Data Sharing Act 2017;

(3) A body specified in subsection (2) may disclose the identifier or unique identifier of an individual to the Health Secretary for a purpose specified in subsection (1).

(4) This section does not affect the operation of—