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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - General status and specific rights - Specific rights of care recipients

52: Rights in case of visual or audio recording

You could also call this:

"Your right to agree to being recorded"

Illustration for Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

If someone wants to record you, like in a video or audio, you have the right to know. This includes if someone wants to record an interview with you or something about the care you are getting. You need to say it is okay before anyone can record you, or someone who looks after you, like a guardian, can say it is okay for you. If you are not alive anymore, the person who looks after your things can say it is okay for recordings to be made, you can see similar rules in the 1986 act.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
General status and specific rights: Specific rights of care recipients

52Rights in case of visual or audio recording

  1. Every care recipient is entitled to be informed if it is intended to make or use a videotape or other visual or audio recording of the following matters:

  2. an interview with the care recipient:
    1. an aspect of the care of the care recipient.

      1. Nothing referred to in subsection (1) may be done without the prior consent of the care recipient or a guardian of the care recipient or, if the care recipient is dead, the care recipient's personal representative.

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