Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Records Act 2001 - SECT 16

Freedom of Information Act 1982

16. Freedom of Information Act 1982



Except as otherwise provided by the Freedom of Information Act 1982, nothing
in Part 5, HPP 5.2 or HPP 6 applies-

   (a)  to a document containing health information, or to the health
        information contained in a document, that is-

   (i)  a document of an agency within the meaning of the
        Freedom of Information Act 1982; or

   (ii) an official document of a Minister within the meaning of that Act-

and access can only be required to be granted to that document or information,
and that information can only be corrected, in accordance with the procedures
set out in, and in the form required or permitted by, that Act; or







   (b)  to a document containing health information, or to the health
        information contained in a document, to which access would not be
        granted under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 because of section
        5(3) or 6 of that Act.