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This enactment provides for privacy of patients' health records and
restricts the uses to which the information in such records may be put.
It deals with the different contexts in which information is given or
collected, the issue of informed consent, the circumstances in which
consent may be implied and the scope of a consent.
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It provides different categories of use and places restrictions on the
form of information for these uses. Patient privacy impact analysis will
be necessary for all uses that do not relate to the health treatment of the
patient and the information for such uses must be made anonymous.
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The Privacy Commissioner may investigate complaints alleging
non-compliance. Offences and penalties are established.
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