Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) In the performance of the CEO's functions, the CEO must not publish or disseminate information that is likely to enable the identification of a particular organ or tissue donor or recipient.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the publication or dissemination of the information takes place with the consent of:
(a) if the organ or tissue donor or recipient is aged at least 18 years--the organ or tissue donor or recipient; or
(b) if the organ or tissue donor or recipient has died but is survived by a person (the surviving partner ) who was:
(i) his or her partner immediately before he or she died; and
(ii) living with him or her immediately before he or she died;
the surviving partner; or
(c) in any other case--an individual who, under the regulations, is authorised to give consent to the publication or dissemination of the information.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a person is taken to have been living with his or her partner at a particular time if they were not living together at that time only because of:
(a) a temporary absence from each other; or
(b) illness or infirmity of either or both of them.