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Health Act 1956

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121A: Regulations as to retention of health information

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"Rules for keeping and protecting your health information and body samples"

The law says regulations can be made about how long you must keep health information or specimens. You must keep them for a minimum amount of time. The regulations will say how long.

The law also says you must protect health information or specimens from being lost, damaged, or destroyed. You must stop people accessing, using, or sharing them without permission. You must also stop any other misuse of health information or specimens.

If you want to destroy health information or specimens, you must follow certain procedures. These procedures might include telling the public or certain people. Health information has the same meaning as in section 22B and a specimen is a sample of your body tissue.

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Part 6Regulations

121ARegulations as to retention of health information

  1. Regulations made under this Act may provide for all or any of the following matters:

  2. the minimum periods for which health information or specimens, or any class or classes of health information or specimens, must be retained by any person or class or classes of person specified in the regulations:
    1. the safeguards to be taken by any holder, or any class or classes of holder, of health information or specimens, to ensure that health information or specimens, or any class or classes of health information or specimens, is protected against all or any of the following:
      1. loss, damage, or destruction:
        1. access, use, modification, or disclosure, except where properly authorised:
          1. other misuse:
          2. the procedures (including procedures requiring notification to the public, or any section of the public, or to any particular persons) to be followed by any holder, or any class or classes of holder, of health information or specimens, or any class or classes of health information or specimens, before that information or those specimens may be destroyed.

            1. In this section, health information has the same meaning as in section 22B and specimen means a bodily sample or tissue sample taken from a person.

            Notes
            • Section 121A: inserted, on , by section 3 of the Health Amendment Act (No 2) 1993 (1993 No 32).
            • Section 121A(1)(a): amended, on , by section 5(1) of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).
            • Section 121A(1)(b): amended, on , by section 5(2) of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).
            • Section 121A(1)(c): amended, on , by section 5(3) of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).
            • Section 121A(1)(c): amended, on , by section 5(4) of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).
            • Section 121A(2): amended, on , by section 5(5) of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).