Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 36

    (1)     The Executive may make regulations for this Act.

Note     Regulations must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act 2001 .

    (2)     The regulations may—

        (a)     extend, by not more than 21 days, the time within which something must or may be done for this Act; or

        (b)     make provision about the keeping and transfer of health records; or

        (c)     prescribe qualifications to be held, or other requirements to be met, by record keepers in relation to possession or control of health records.

    (3)     A regulation may make provision about a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating an instrument, or a provision of an instrument, as in force from time to time for the privacy principles, principle 10, clause 3 (which is about the disclosure of a health record for the purpose of research or the compilation or analysis of statistics).

    (4)     The regulations may also prescribe offences for contraventions of the regulations and may prescribe maximum penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for offences against the regulations.