HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 178A Transitional provisions—Health Records Act 2001

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 178A

    (1)     Section 141(3)(g) as amended by the Health Records Act 2001 does not apply to the giving of information for the purposes of medical or social research if the use to which the information will be put and the research methodology has been approved by an ethics committee under that section before the commencement of that amendment even if the giving of the information occurs after that commencement.

    (2)     Section 141(4) as amended by the Health Records Act 2001 does not apply to the giving of information, the giving of which has been approved as required by that section before the commencement of that amendment, even if the giving of the information occurs after that commencement.

S. 178B inserted by No. 79/2008 s. 13.