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NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 135AB

Breaches of the privacy rules

  (1)   A breach of the rules issued under section   135AA constitutes an act or practice involving interference with the privacy of an individual for the purposes of section   13 of the Privacy Act 1988 .

  (2)   An individual may complain to the Information Commissioner about an act or practice in relation to the operation of rules issued under section   135AA of this Act which may be an interference with the privacy of an individual.

  (3)   If a complaint is made, Part   V of the Privacy Act 1988 applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, as if the complaint were an APP complaint (within the meaning of that Act) made under section   36 of that Act.


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