Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record - Sharing by Default) Act 2025 (8 of 2025)
Schedule 1 Main amendments
Part 1 My Health Records
My Health Records Act 2012
14 At the end of Part 4
Add:
Division 5 - Authorised collection, use and disclosure for compliance purposes
73C Collection, use and disclosure of health information in relation to compliance with share by default provisions
(1) A person covered by subsection (2) is authorised to collect, use and disclose, for the purposes of monitoring, investigating or enforcing compliance with a share by default provision, health information disclosed to the person under section 70AA.
(2) This subsection covers the following persons:
(a) the Chief Executive Medicare;
(b) the Secretary of the Department;
(c) a Commonwealth entity (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013) (if any) specified in the My Health Records Rules for the purposes of paragraph 70AA(2)(c).
73D Collection, use and disclosure of healthcare identifiers and identifying information in relation to compliance with share by default provisions
(1) An entity mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table is authorised to take action of the kind described in column 2 of that item with information of the kind described in column 3 of that item in the circumstances described in column 4 of that item.
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Collection, use and disclosure in relation to compliance with share by default provisions |
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Item |
Column 1
Entity |
Column 2
Permitted action |
Column 3
Information |
Column 4
Circumstances |
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1 |
participant in the My Health Record system |
use disclose |
identifying information about any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider the healthcare identifier of any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider |
the use or disclosure is for the purposes of compliance with a share by default provision |
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2 |
Secretary of the Department |
collect use disclose |
identifying information about any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider the healthcare identifier of any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider |
the collection, use or disclosure is for the purposes of monitoring, investigating or enforcing compliance with a share by default provision |
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3 |
Chief Executive Medicare |
collect use disclose |
identifying information about any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider the healthcare identifier of any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider |
the collection, use or disclosure is for the purposes of monitoring, investigating or enforcing compliance with a share by default provision |
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4 |
service operator for the purposes of the Healthcare identifiers Act 2010 |
collect use disclose |
identifying information about any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider the healthcare identifier of any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider |
the collection, use or disclosure is for the purposes of monitoring, investigating or enforcing compliance with a share by default provision |
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5 |
any Commonwealth entity (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013) specified in the My Health Records Rules |
collect use disclose |
identifying information about any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider the healthcare identifier of any of the following: (a) a healthcare recipient; (b) a healthcare provider |
the collection, use or disclosure is for the purposes of monitoring, investigating or enforcing compliance with a share by default provision |