Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Records Act 2001 - SECT 11

Application to private sector

11. Application to private sector



(1) This Act applies to-

   (a)  a natural person;

   (b)  a body corporate;

   (c)  a partnership;

   (d)  a trust;

   (e)  any other unincorporated association or body-

that is a health service provider or collects, holds or uses health
information and is not, or to the extent that it is not, a person or body to
which this Act applies by force of section 10(1).

(2) A person or body to which this Act applies by force of subsection (1) is
an organisation for the purposes of this Act.

(3) This section is subject to Division 3.

(4) Despite subsection (1), nothing in this Act applies to an agency within
the meaning of the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.