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 10   My Health Records information

My Health Records Act 2012

62   After subsection 59A(1)

Insert:

(1A) A person must not use health information included in a healthcare recipient's My Health Record for a prohibited purpose, if the person obtained the information in the following way:

(a) the health information was originally obtained by a participant in the My Health Record system by means of the My Health Record system in accordance with this Act;

(b) after the health information was so obtained, it was stored in such a way that it could be obtained other than by means of the My Health Record system;

(c) the person subsequently obtained the health information by those other means.

Civil penalty: 1,500 penalty units.