Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 60

60 Powers of health service auditors

(1) A health service auditor may enter a public sector health service facility at any time the facility is open for business or otherwise open for entry.

(2) A health service auditor may, in the exercise of the auditor’s functions, ask an employee of the department or a Service to give to the auditor a document, including a document containing confidential information, that—

(a) is relevant to the auditor’s functions; and

(b) is in the possession or control of the employee.

(3) The employee must comply with the request.

(4) If requested by the employee, the health service auditor must produce the auditor’s instrument of appointment to the employee.

(5) The health service auditor may make copies of, and take extracts from, the document.

(6) In this section—

"confidential information" means any information that—

(a) is about a person who is receiving or has received a public sector health service; and

(b) could identify the person.