HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 36 Regulation-making power

HEALTH RECORDS (PRIVACY AND ACCESS) ACT 1997 - SECT 36

    (1)     The Executive may make regulations for this Act.

Note     Regulations must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act 2001

.

    (2)     The regulations may—

        (a)     extend, by not more than 21 days, the time within which something must or may be done for this Act; or

        (b)     make provision about the keeping and transfer of health records; or

        (c)     prescribe qualifications to be held, or other requirements to be met, by record keepers in relation to possession or control of health records.

    (3)     A regulation may make provision about a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating an instrument as in force from time to time for the privacy principles, principle 10, clause 3 (which is about the disclosure of a health record for the purpose of research or the compilation or analysis of statistics).

Note     A reference to an instrument includes a reference to a provision of an instrument (see Legislation Act

, s 14 (2)).

    (4)     The regulations may also prescribe offences for contraventions of the regulations and may prescribe maximum penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for offences against the regulations.