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HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK ACT 2011 No. 32 - SECT 129

129 Powers of clinical reviewers

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

(2) A clinical reviewer may, in the exercise of the reviewer's functions, ask a network health executive or an employee of the department, including a network employee, to give to the reviewer a document, including a document containing confidential information, that—

(a) is relevant to the reviewer's functions; and
(b) is in the possession or control of the network health executive or employee.

(3) The network health executive or employee must comply with the request.

(4) If requested by the network health executive or employee, the clinical reviewer must produce the reviewer's instrument of appointment to the network health executive or employee.

(5) The clinical reviewer 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.


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