Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 24

    Section   21 does not apply if:

  (a)   a person obtains protected information for a permissible purpose; and

  (b)   the person makes a record of, or discloses or otherwise uses, the information; and

  (c)   the record, disclosure or use is required under another enactment of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this section: see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .