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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) ACT 1993 - SECT 55

Access to confidential information

    The health and safety representative for a designated work group must not, or, if the health and safety representative is assisted by a consultant, the health and safety representative and the consultant must not, under paragraph   51(b), have access:

  (a)   to information in respect of which the operator may claim, and does claim, legal professional privilege; or

  (b)   to information of a confidential medical nature relating to a person who is or was an employee unless:

  (i)   the person has given to the operator a written authority allowing the health and safety representative, or the health and safety representative and the consultant, as the case requires, to have access to the information; or

  (ii)   the information is in a form that does not identify the person or enable the identity of the person to be discovered.


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