Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 88

  (1)   The Secretary may, in writing, authorise a person:

  (a)   to make a record of or otherwise use protected information for a specified purpose; or

  (b)   to disclose protected information to a specified person, or to a specified class of persons, for a specified purpose.

  (2)   A person who is authorised to make a record of, or disclose or otherwise use, protected information under subsection   (1) may make a record of, or disclose or otherwise use, the information in accordance with the authorisation.

Note:   This section constitutes an authorisation for the purposes of other laws, such as paragraph   6.2(b) of Australian Privacy Principle   6.