New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 69

69 Offering to supply health information that has been disclosed unlawfully

(1) A person who offers to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise), or holds himself or herself out as being able to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise), health information that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, has been or is proposed to be disclosed in contravention of section 68 is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.

(2) If a person is convicted of an offence under section 68 or subsection (1), the court may order the confiscation of any money or other benefit alleged to have been obtained by the person in connection with the offence and for that money or other benefit to be forfeited to the Crown.