HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 21 Complaints against public sector agencies
HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 21
Complaints against public sector agencies21 Complaints against public sector agencies
(1) The following conduct by a public sector agency is conduct to which Part 5 (Review of certain conduct) of the PPIP Act applies--(a) the contravention of a Health Privacy Principle that applies to the agency,(b) the contravention of a health privacy code of practice that applies to the agency.
(2) For that purpose, a reference in that Part--(a) to personal information is taken to include health information, and(b) to an information protection principle is taken to include a Health Privacy Principle, and(c) to a privacy code of practice is taken to include a health privacy code of practice.
(3) This section applies only to conduct engaged in after the commencement of this section.