Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 250.10

             (1)  This section applies if a person gives a * record, information or a document to the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman, reasonably believing that this would assist the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman in:

                     (a)  mediating a complaint under Division 247 or otherwise dealing with it under Subdivision 241-B or 241-D; or

                     (b)  referring a complaint under section 241-25 or 241-30; or

                     (c)  making a decision under section 241-35 not to deal, or not to continue to deal, with a complaint; or

                     (d)  investigating a matter under section 244-1 or 244-5.

             (2)  For the purposes of:

                     (a)  the Privacy Act 1988; and

                     (b)  any provision of a law of a State or Territory that provides that * personal information contained in a * record, information or document may be disclosed if the disclosure is authorised by law;

the giving of the record, information or document to the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman is taken to be authorised by law.