Australia: Beyond the Privacy Act: spotlight on obligations for private health services providers

The September 2016 edition of the Privacy Law Bulletin (a LexisNexis publication) contains an article by Marie Feltham, Special Counsel at DibbsBarker, entitled 'Beyond the Privacy Act: spotlight on state and territory based legislation imposing greater obligations on private health services providers.' In this article Marie discusses the overlapping Commonwealth and state or territory laws, and identifies the main areas where the health records legislation of NSW, Victoria and the ACT impose specific and additional requirements on private health service providers.

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