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121B Information sharing

(1) A person engaged in the administration of this Act may disclose information obtained in the course of the administration or execution of this Act to the following persons or bodies, if the disclosure is for the purpose of assisting those persons or bodies to exercise functions under this Act--

(a) the Authority or a member of staff of the Authority,

(b) the Self Insurance Corporation or a licence holder under Part 6C or a member of staff of the Corporation or a licence holder,

(c) a government sector agency or a member of staff of a government sector agency,

(d) a person or body prescribed by the regulations for this section.

(2) A person or body to which information may be disclosed under subsection (1) may disclose to a person engaged in the administration of this Act information obtained in connection with the exercise of functions of the person or body under this Act, if the disclosure is for the purpose of assisting in the administration or execution of this Act.

(2A) The Authority may disclose information obtained in the course of the administration or execution of this Act to a government sector agency prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section or a member of staff of the agency, if the disclosure is for the purpose of assisting in the administration or execution of any other Act.

(3) Information may be disclosed under this section by giving access to any record of the information.

(3A) To avoid doubt, information that is personal information (within the meaning of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 ) or health information (within the meaning of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 ) may be disclosed for the purposes of subsection (1) or (2).

(4) A reference in this section to the functions of the Self Insurance Corporation under this Act includes the functions of the Corporation under section 8A of the NSW Self Insurance Corporation Act 2004 .

(5) In this section--

"government sector agency" means--

(a) a Public Service agency or other government sector agency within the meaning of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 , or

(b) a NSW Government agency, or

Note--: See the Interpretation Act 1987 , section 13A.

(c) an entity constituted by or under an Act or exercising public functions, such as a State owned corporation, being an entity prescribed by the regulations for this definition.