New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 161A

161A Provision of information by health service providers

(1) It is the duty of a health service provider involved in the provision of services to or in respect of an offender to provide the following information on request by a community corrections officer--

(a) whether or not the offender has attended a program or any appointment in which the health service provider is involved that is required by a condition of the offender's parole order or by a direction of a community corrections officer,

(b) whether or not the offender has participated in any other activity in which the health service provider is involved as required by a condition of the offender's parole order or by a direction of a community corrections officer.

(2) Nothing in this section requires a health service provider to provide any information relating to events that occurred during any treatment, program or activity in which the offender participated.

(3) The offender is taken to have authorised the provision of information in accordance with this section by the health service provider.

(4) The provision of information under this section by a health service provider does not constitute--

(a) a contravention of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 or the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 , or

(b) a breach of professional etiquette or ethics or a departure from accepted standards of professional conduct.

(5) In this section--

"health service provider" means--

(a) a health service provider within the meaning of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 , or

(b) an individual who provides a health service within the meaning of that Act.