Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendments to support a 'tell us once' approach to government service delivery

Part 2   Enhancing use and adoption of healthcare identifiers

Division 3   Health technology providers etc. - amendments commencing day after Royal Assent

Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

39   After section 15

Insert:

15A Collection, use and disclosure - research

An entity may collect, use or disclose the healthcare identifier of a healthcare recipient if:

(a) the collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of assisting the entity to conduct research that has been approved by a Human Research Ethics Committee or is authorised by another Australian law; and

(b) the healthcare recipient has consented to the collection, use or disclosure.