New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 21

21 Complaints against public sector agencies

(1) The following conduct by a public sector agency is conduct to which Part 5 (Review of certain conduct) of the PPIP Act applies:

(a) the contravention of a Health Privacy Principle that applies to the agency,

(b) the contravention of a health privacy code of practice that applies to the agency.

(2) For that purpose, a reference in that Part:

(a) to personal information is taken to include health information, and

(b) to an information protection principle is taken to include a Health Privacy Principle, and

(c) to a privacy code of practice is taken to include a health privacy code of practice.

(3) This section applies only to conduct engaged in after the commencement of this section.