Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00099:section:6:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00099
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Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 2/2)
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there is no such person—a person:
 (i) who the System Operator is satisfied is otherwise an appropriate person to be the authorised representative of the healthcare recipient; or
 (ii) who is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
 (5) An authorisation referred to in paragraph (2)(a) or (4)(a) may be conferred by specific reference to the purposes of this Act, or conferred by words of general authorisation that are broad enough to cover that purpose.
 (6) A person cannot be the authorised representative of a healthcare recipient unless:
 (a) a healthcare identifier has been assigned to the person under paragraph 9(1)(b) of the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010; or
 (b) the My Health Records Rules provide that a healthcare identifier is not required to have been so assigned.

Effect of being an authorised representative
 (7) At a time when a healthcare recipient has an authorised representative:
 (a) the authorised representative is entitled to do any thing that this Act authorises or requires the healthcare recipient to do; and
 (b) the healthcare recipient is not entitled to do any thing that this Act would, apart from this subsection, authorise or require the healthcare recipient to do; and
 (c) this Act has effect for all purposes, in relation to a thing done by an authorised representative, as if the healthcare recipient had done the thing.
 (8) At a time when a healthcare recipient has one or more authorised representatives, any thing that this Act authorises or requires to be done in relation to the healthcare recipient is to be done in relation to at least one of the healthcare recipient's authorised representatives. This Act has effect for all purposes as if the thing had been done in relation to the healthcare recipient.