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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 66A

Confidentiality of information on the Central Register

    (1)     A member of the Authority or a person employed or engaged by the Authority or an organisation authorised under section 67B must not disclose to any person, whether directly or indirectly, any information recorded in the Central Register.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), the Authority or a person employed or engaged by the Authority or an organisation authorised under section 67B may disclose information recorded in the Central Register

        (a)     in the exercise in good faith of a power or a function of the Authority under this Act; or

        (b)     to a court or a tribunal; or

        (c)     as required in the course of disciplinary proceedings against a doctor; or

        (d)     as required under any other Act; or

        (e)     for the purposes of law enforcement.

S. 66A(3) inserted by No. 39/2021 s. 35.

    (3)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a disclosure by an organisation authorised under section 67B of information that is recorded in the Central Register but was not disclosed to the organisation by the Authority.

S. 66B inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 24.



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