HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 13A Disclosure in accordance with consent

HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 13A

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a consumer has a right of access to a health record; and

        (b)     the consumer consents under schedule 1, principle 10, clause 2 (c) to the disclosure of personal health information about the consumer from the record to an entity.

    (2)     The record keeper must disclose the information to the entity.

    (3)     For the purpose of accessing the information in the record, the entity is taken to be the consumer.

    (4)     To remove any doubt and without limiting subsection (3), the entity has the same right of access to the information in the record as the consumer.