Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Records Act 2001 - SECT 12

Effect of outsourcing

12. Effect of outsourcing



(1) An act or practice done or engaged in by an outsourced service provider
under a State contract that is an interference with the privacy of an
individual must, for the purposes of this Act, be taken to have been done or
engaged in by the outsourcing organisation as well as the outsourced service
provider if the provision of this Act or the HPP to which the act or practice
is contrary, or with which it is inconsistent, is not capable of being
enforced against the outsourced service provider in accordance with the
procedures set out in this Act.

(2) Section 92(1) does not apply to an act done or practice engaged in by an
outsourced service provider acting within the scope of a State contract.

Division 3-Exemptions