HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 13
Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 13
Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
13 Courts, tribunals and Royal Commissions not affected
(1) Nothing in this Act affects the manner in which a court or tribunal, or
the manner in which the holder of an office relating to a court or tribunal,
exercises the court's, or the tribunal's, judicial functions.
(2) Nothing in
this Act affects the manner in which a Royal Commission, or any Special
Commission of Inquiry, exercises the Commission's functions.
(3) In this
section,
"judicial functions of a court or tribunal" means such of the functions of the
court or tribunal as relate to the hearing or determination of proceedings
before it, and includes--
(a) in relation to a justice--such of the functions
of the justice as relate to the conduct of committal proceedings, and
(b) in
relation to a coroner--such of the functions of the coroner as relate to the
conduct of inquests and inquiries under the Coroners Act 2009 .
