Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Cancer Act 1958 - SECT 61A

Information may be released in certain circumstances

61A. Information may be released in certain circumstances



(1) Despite section 61, a person to whom that section applies may, for the
purposes of medical research or the administration of cancer related public
health programs, give information acquired by the Council pursuant to section
60 if-

   (a)  the use to which that information will be put and any research
        methodology to be used in the medical research or administration of
        the programs has been approved, having regard to the NHMRC guidelines,
        by an ethics committee established by the Council; and

   (b)  the giving of that information does not conflict with any prescribed
        requirements.

(2) A person who receives information by reason of the giving of information
under subsection (1) must not give to any other person, whether directly or
indirectly, any information so received unless the giving of the information-

   (a)  has been approved by the ethics committee referred to in subsection
        (1); and

   (b)  does not conflict with any prescribed requirements.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) In this section NHMRC guidelines means the document titled "Aspects of
Privacy in Medical Research: An information paper and guidelines for the
protection of privacy in the conduct of medical research" endorsed by the
National Health and Medical Research Council Executive Committee, June 1995
and includes any subsequent amendment to that document or any superseding
document prepared or endorsed by the National Health and Medical Research
Council which covers the same subject matter.