Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:130:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 130 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 792348–795119

authority or person for the purposes of this subsection; and
 (b) the information is information of a kind that may, in accordance with the regulations, be provided to the authority or person.
 (3AA) Despite subsection (1), an officer may make a record of information with the express or implied authorisation of the person to whom the information relates.
 (4) An authority or person to whom information is divulged under subsection (3) or (3A), and any person or employee under the control of that authority or person, shall, in respect of that information, be subject to the same rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities under subsections (1) and (2) as if he or she were a person performing duties under this Act and had acquired the information in the performance of those duties.
 (4A) This section does not prohibit:
 (a) the provision to a person of a document that was provided to the Chief Executive Medicare by the person in relation to a claim for a medicare benefit; or
 (b) the divulging or communicating to a person of information relating to the person; or
 (c) information that:
 (i) has been provided to a prescribed professional disciplinary body or a prescribed professional regulatory body; and
 (ii) was contained in a claim for a medicare benefit;
  from being used by the body for the purpose of any investigation or inquiry being conducted by the body in the performance of its functions or the exercise of its powers.
 (5) Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section prohibits the publication of statistics by the Commonwealth, by the Chief Executive Medicare or by the Commonwealth Statistician but such statistics shall not be published in a manner that enables the identification of an individual patient or an individual practitioner.
 (5A) If a person applies to an authorised officer for information about a hospital, this section does not prohibit that authorised officer or any other authorised officer providing all or any of the following information in respect of the hospital to the applicant:
 (a) the name and address of the hospital;
 (b) the number of beds available in the hospital to patients;
 (c) whether or not the hospital is a private hospital or a recognised hospital;
 (d) the kinds of services (for example, obstetric services or psychiatric services) provided at the hospital;
 (e) whether or not the hospital is a teaching hospital.
 (5B) In subsection (5A):
authorised officer means:
 (a) the Secretary; or
 (b) an APS employee in the Department.
 (5E) This section does not prohibit the Chief Executive Medicare, or a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973), from providing to:
 (a) the Director of Professional Services Review appointed under section 83;