South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH COMMISSION ACT 1976 - SECT 64

64—Duty to maintain confidentiality

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), an officer or employee of the Department, a person employed by an employing authority under this Act, or a person working at an incorporated hospital or an incorporated health centre under any other arrangement, must not divulge personal information relating to a patient obtained in the course of employment or while so working except to the extent that he or she may be authorised or required to divulge that information—

            (a)         by law; or

            (b)         by the Department or the employing authority; or

            (c)         in the case of a person employed or working at an incorporated hospital or an incorporated health centre—by the relevant hospital or health centre.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (2)         This section does not prevent a person from divulging statistical or other information that could not reasonably be expected to lead to identification of patients to whom it relates.