Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 173

173 Giving health information held by a health agency

(1) Subsection (2) applies if the chief executive, a person in charge of a school, education and care service or QEC approved service, or another person involved in the administration of this part asks for health information held by a health agency to be provided to the chief executive, person in charge or other person.

(2) A person asked to provide health information held by a health agency under subsection (1) may give the information if the giving of the information is necessary for the administration of this part.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if a person in charge of a school, education and care service or QEC approved service asks for information held by a health agency about whether a child attending a school, education and care service or QEC approved service has been vaccinated for a vaccine preventable condition.

(4) The chief executive must provide the information to the person in charge if the chief executive is satisfied that—

(a) a child attending the school or service is suspected of being at risk of contracting the vaccine preventable condition if the child continues to attend the school or service; and

(b) the information about the child is necessary to enable the person in charge to act under section 165 or 166 .

(5) This section applies despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of another law that deals with confidentiality, including, for example, the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 , section 142 .