Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 95 of 1989 - SECT 6

6. Section 29 is amended:

   (a)  by omitting paragraphs (2) (b) and (c) and substituting the following
        paragraphs:

"(b) a person from divulging or communicating information, or producing a
document, to a person specified in writing by the person (in this subsection
called the 'information provider') who divulged or communicated the
information, or produced the document, directly to the Institute;

   (c)  a person from divulging or communicating information, or producing a
        document, to a person specified in writing by the Australian Institute
        of Health Ethics Committee if to do so is not contrary to the written
        terms and conditions (if any) upon which the information provider
        divulged or communicated the information, or produced the document,
        directly to the Institute; or

   (d)  the publication of conclusions based on statistics derived from, or of
        particulars of procedures used in, the work of the Institute, if:

        (i)    to do so is not contrary to the written terms and conditions
               (if any) upon which an information provider divulged or
               communicated information relevant to the publication, or
               produced a document relevant to the publication, directly to
               the Institute; and

        (ii)   the publication does not identify the information subject.";

   (b)  by omitting from subsection (3) "or (b)" and substituting ", (b) or
        (c),";

   (c)  by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) all words from and including "and"
        and substituting the following words and subparagraphs:

"and also includes:

        (i)    in the case of an information provider-a body politic; or

        (ii)   in the case of an information subject-a deceased person.".