Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2015A00057:clause:1_10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2015A00057
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 10
Character Range: 50817–52417

10  After subsection 35(6A)
Insert:

Sharing information about private health insurers among agencies
 (6B) Subsections (2) and (5) do not prevent an officer, in the performance of his or her duties as an officer, from disclosing information mentioned in subsection (6C) in accordance with subsection (6D).
 (6C) For subsection (6B), the information is information that:
 (a) relates to any or all of the following:
 (i) a private health insurer;
 (ii) an applicant to become a private health insurer;
 (iii) a person carrying on health insurance business;
 (iv) a director or officer of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); and
 (b) is not information of a kind specified in the Private Health Insurance (Information Disclosure) Rules as information that must not be disclosed under section 323‑10 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
 (6D) For subsection (6B), the officer may disclose the information to the following:
 (a) the Health Minister;
 (b) the Secretary of the Health Department;
 (c) an APS employee in, or a person holding or performing the duties of an office in, the Health Department;
 (d) a member of the Council (within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007);
 (e) a person employed, or a consultant engaged, by the Council (within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007);
 (f) the Chief Executive Medicare;
 (g) a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973);
if the disclosure is made in accordance with any requirements in the Private Health Insurance (Information Disclosure) Rules.