New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH RECORDS AND INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2002 - SECT 26

26 Making a request for access

(1) An individual may request a private sector person to provide the individual with access to health information relating to the individual held by the private sector person. A request must:

(a) be in writing, and

(b) state the name and the address of the individual making the request, and

(c) sufficiently identify the health information to which access is sought, and

(d) specify the form in which the individual wishes the information to be provided, being a form provided for by this Act.

(2) An individual who requests access to health information relating to the individual may authorise another person to have access to the information in the place of the individual. Such an authority must:

(a) be in writing, and

(b) name the person who is authorised to have access to the information.

A private sector person is to provide access under this Act in accordance with any such written authority.

This section does not prevent an individual and a private sector person from making other arrangements for access to information: see section 32.