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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Information, enforcement, compensation, appeals, and secondary legislation - Power to require information - Restrictions on disclosure and use of information

172: Medical and legally privileged information not to be disclosed

You could also call this:

"Keeping private medical and lawyer talks secret"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If a law says you have to give information, it does not mean you have to share things about someone's medical condition or history. You also do not have to give information that is protected by legal professional privilege, which means it is private between a lawyer and their client. This proposed law change would help keep that kind of information private.

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Topics:

Health and wellbeing > Public healthRights and equality > Privacy

171: How information is to be provided, or

"How to give information when asked"

173: Restrictions on disclosure and use of information, or

"Rules for Sharing Information in Emergencies"

Part 5Information, enforcement, compensation, appeals, and secondary legislation
Power to require information: Restrictions on disclosure and use of information

172Medical and legally privileged information not to be disclosed

No requirement to give information under section 170 requires any person to give—
information concerning the medical condition or history of any person; or
information that is protected by legal professional privilege.

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2002 No 33 s 82