Hearing Services and AGHS Reform Act 1997 (82 of 1997)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Hearing Services Act 1991

Part 2   Amendments commencing on 1 July 1997

86   After subsection 67(8)

Insert:

(8A) Despite subsection (1), information relating to a person may be disclosed if the person consents to the disclosure.

(8B) Despite subsection (1), information may be disclosed:

(a) to the Minister, to the Secretary to the Department, or to any other officer of the Department, for the purposes of the administration of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997; or

(b) to the chief executive officer (however described) of a body, or to a member of the staff of a body, for the purposes of the performance of any functions, or the exercise of any powers, conferred on the body by section 21 of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997.

(8C) A person (the first person ) to whom information is disclosed under paragraph (8B)(a) or (b) must not, directly or indirectly, except for the purposes referred to in that paragraph, disclose the information to any person while the first person is, or after the first person ceases to be, a person of a kind mentioned in that paragraph.