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323‑10 Authorised disclosure: sharing information about insurers among agencies
(1) This section applies to information if the information:
(a) relates to any or all of the following:
(i) a private health insurer;
(ii) an applicant to become a private health insurer;
(iii) a person carrying on *health insurance business;
(iv) a *director or *officer of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); and
(b) is not information of a kind specified in the Private Health Insurance (Information Disclosure) Rules as information that must not be disclosed under this section.
(1A) For the purposes of subsection 323‑1(3), a person to whom subsection (2) applies may disclose the information to:
(a) another person to whom subsection (2) applies; or
(b) the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman; or
(c) an APS employee in, or a person holding or performing the duties of an office in, the Statutory Agency of the Commonwealth Ombudsman; or
(d) *APRA; or
(e) an APRA member or APRA staff member (within the meaning of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998);
if the disclosure is made in accordance with any requirements in the Private Health Insurance (Information Disclosure) Rules.
(2) This subsection applies to the following persons:
(a) the Minister;
(b) the Secretary of the Department;
(c) an APS employee in, or a person holding or performing the duties of an office in, the Department;
(h) the Chief Executive Medicare;
(i) a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973).