112JRestriction on access to, and use, retention, and disclosure of, NCSP information

1. No person may access, use, retain, or disclose NCSP information if that information identifies a woman, except as provided by this section.

2. The following persons may access register information by directly accessing the NCSP register:

3. a health practitioner engaged by or on behalf of a woman to provide cervical screening services to that woman, for the purpose of providing cervical screening services in relation to that woman:
4. a health practitioner engaged to provide cervical screening services in relation to the woman by or on behalf of a health practitioner referred to in paragraph (a), for the purpose of providing cervical screening services in relation to that woman:
5. administrative support staff engaged by a health practitioner referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) who access the information at the direction of the health practitioner, for the purpose of providing cervical screening services in relation to that woman:
6. Health New Zealand NCSP team staff performing the functions of NCSP register administrators and any other person or class of persons authorised for that purpose by the NCSP manager, for the purpose of supporting the operation of the NCSP:
7. a person engaged by the Ministry of Health or Health New Zealand, and any other person or class of persons authorised for that purpose by the NCSP manager, for the purpose of providing support services to women experiencing barriers to accessing cervical screening services:
8. a person authorised by the NCSP manager, for the purpose of providing information to any person authorised to receive it under subsection (3) or (4).

9. Register information may be disclosed by a person referred to in subsection (2)(f), to—

10. a person authorised to access the NCSP register under subsection (2), for the authorised purpose; or
11. a person engaged by the Ministry of Health or Health New Zealand, and any other person or class of persons authorised for that purpose by the NCSP manager, for the purpose of enabling results from a screening test or a diagnostic test to be followed up; or
12. a person engaged by the Ministry of Health or Health New Zealand, and any other person or class of persons authorised for that purpose by the NCSP manager, for the purpose of enabling notices related to the NCSP to be sent to women who are enrolled in the NCSP, including reminder notices to women who are due for another screening test.

13. NCSP information may be accessed and disclosed by a person authorised for that purpose by the NCSP manager, if the disclosure is—

14. to a screening programme evaluator under section 112X(2)(a); or
15. to a review committee, in accordance with a request from that committee under section 112Q(1); or
16. for the purpose of research, in accordance with regulations made under section 112ZF(1)(a); or
17. for the purpose of enabling the compilation and publication of statistics that do not enable the identification of the women to whom those statistics relate, unless the disclosure is prohibited by any regulations made under section 112ZF(1)(b).

18. Any person who accesses or receives information in accordance with subsection (2), (3), or (4) may use and retain the information for the purpose of that subsection and any directly related purpose.