(1) The Department and the Services are, for the Information Act , taken to be the one public sector organisation.
(2) The effect of subsection (1) is that information may be disclosed to the Department by a Service despite that the information:
(a) is health information about a person; or
(b) may allow a particular person to be identified.
(3) An application for access to information may be addressed to the CEO, even if the information is held by a Service.
(4) The CEO may require a Service to provide information in order for the CEO to deal with an application mentioned in subsection (3).
(5) The Service must comply with the requirement.