Queensland Consolidated Acts

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 2000 - SECT 80P

80P Health providers to give information

(1) The purpose of this section is to ensure the tribunal, in deciding whether to consent to sterilisation of a child, has all the information necessary to make an informed decision.

(2) The tribunal may order a health provider who is treating, or has treated, the child to give information to the tribunal, including—

(a) the type of information mentioned in section 80I (5) ; and

(b) any other relevant information.

(3) The health provider must comply with the order, unless the health provider has a reasonable excuse.

(4) It is a reasonable excuse for a health provider to fail to give information because giving the information might tend to incriminate the health provider.

(5) Subject to subsection (4) , this section overrides—

(a) any restriction, in an Act or the common law, about the disclosure or confidentiality of information; and

(b) any claim of confidentiality or privilege.