New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2010 - SECT 98

98 Public health and disease registers

(1) The Secretary may establish and maintain, or arrange for the establishment and maintenance of, a register of a kind specified by an order under this Part.

(2) The Secretary may enter into an agreement or arrangement with any other person for the establishment or maintenance, or both, of any such register.

(3) The Secretary may enter into an agreement or arrangement with a local government authority or government or non-government agency, or any other person, for the provision and use of information for the purposes of any such register.

(4) A public health organisation must, if directed to do so in writing by the Secretary, provide information for the purposes of any such register.

(5) A register established under this section must not contain identifying particulars of a person, except with the consent of the person.

(6) The Secretary or a person or class of persons authorised in writing by the Secretary for that purpose may provide personal information about a person to a health records linkage organisation for the purpose of establishing and providing a unique identifier number to be used for the purposes of a register established under this section.

(6A) The Secretary may authorise the following classes of persons, or a subclass of persons from the following classes, for the purposes of subsection (6)--

(a) health practitioners,

Note : For example, medical practitioners are a subclass of health practitioners.

(b) health organisations within the meaning of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 ,

(c) public authorities,

(d) any other class of persons prescribed by the regulations.

(7) In this section--

"health records linkage organisation" means a body approved as a health records linkage organisation by the Secretary from time to time for the purposes of this section.

"identifying particulars" of a person means the person's--

(a) name (including any previous name), or

(b) residential, postal or email address.

"personal information" has the same meaning as in the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 .