HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 18 Grounds for complaint

HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 18

    (1)     A person may make a complaint about an act or omission to the commission on the following grounds:

        (a)     the act or omission contravenes the privacy principles in relation to a consumer;

        (b)     the act or omission is a refusal to give access in accordance with this Act to a health record relating to a consumer;

        (c)     the act or omission is a refusal by a record keeper of a health record to give access to the health record under this Act.

    (2)     A complaint on a ground mentioned in subsection (1) (a) in relation to a dead consumer may be made whether or not the act or omission happened in the lifetime or after the death of the consumer.

Note     Complaints about unlawful discrimination are made under the HRC Act (see s 42).