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8  Prohibition relating to storing claims information with enrolment and entitlement database
 (1) A primary agency must keep the following separate:
 (a) databases of claims information that was obtained under the Medicare Benefits Program or the Pharmaceutical Benefits Program;
 (b) databases of a kind referred to in paragraph 135AA(2)(b) of the Act.
Note: Paragraph 135AA(2)(b) refers to a database that:
(a) is maintained for the purpose of identifying persons who are eligible to be paid benefits under the Medicare Benefits Program or the Pharmaceutical Benefits Program; and
(b) does not contain information relating to claims for payment of such benefits.
 Information contained in such databases is not "claims information".
 (2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a primary agency storing those databases in the same computer system.