DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 233
Chief executive may enter into arrangements about giving and receiving information about eligible persons
DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 233
Chief executive may enter into arrangements about giving and receiving information about eligible persons
233 Chief executive may enter into arrangements about giving and receiving
information about eligible persons
(1) The purpose of this section is to
facilitate the monitoring and reconciliation of funding under this Act and
other Acts, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
(Cwlth) , by sharing information about persons who may be eligible persons.
(2) If the chief executive requests auditing information about persons who may
be eligible persons from the chief executive of another department, the other
chief executive must comply with the request.
(3) To facilitate the giving of
auditing information about persons who may be eligible persons, the chief
executive and the chief executive of the other department may enter into a
written arrangement by which the auditing information is given or received.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3) , the arrangement may provide for the
electronic transfer of auditing information about persons who may be eligible
persons.
(5) However, if auditing information about persons who may be
eligible persons is to be electronically transferred and, under this Act,
there is a limitation on who may access the information or the purposes for
which the information may be used, the arrangement must provide for the
limitation.
(6) Without limiting section 228(5) , the chief executive may
disclose to the chief executive of another department under the arrangement
mentioned in subsection (3) the fact that an eligible person has become, or
will not become, a participant under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) .
(7) In this
section—
"auditing information" , about a person who may be an eligible person, means
each of the following—
(a) the person’s full name;
(b) the person’s
unique agency client identifier, if any;
(c) the person’s date of birth;
(d) the person’s gender;
(e) the person’s residential address;
(f) the
name and full contact details of the person’s carer or guardian and details
of any relationship between the person and the person’s carer or guardian.
