Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

3: Competence, fitness to practise, and quality assurance

60 Exceptions to prohibition on disclosure




    60 Exceptions to prohibition on disclosure

  (1)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the production, disclosure, or recording
of any information that does not identify, either expressly or by implication,
a particular individual.

  (2)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the production or disclosure of a
document that does not identify, either expressly or by implication, a
particular
individual.

  (3)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the disclosure of any information with
the consent of every person who would be directly or indirectly identified by
the
disclosure.

  (4)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the disclosure of any information to the
Minister, or to any person authorised by the Minister, for the purpose
of enabling the Minister to decide whether or not to authorise the
disclosure of the information under section 61.

  (5)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the disclosure of any information for
the purposes of the prosecution of an offence against section 59(6).

  (6)  Nothing in section 59 prohibits the production or disclosure of
information to a mortality review committee in accordance with a requirement of
the chairperson of the committee, or of an agent appointed by the committee,
under clause 2 of Schedule 5 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability
Act 2000.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 71

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