HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 21
Complaints against public sector agencies
HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 21
Complaints against public sector agencies
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.
