Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Amendments to improve or maintain access to government services

Part 5   Authorising appropriate information sharing to improve the integrity of medicare

Health Insurance Act 1973

114   After section 130

Insert:

130AAA Authorisations and exemptions do not limit each other

An authorisation or exemption (however described) under section 129B, 129C, 129D, 129E, 129F or 130 does not limit, and is not limited by, any other authorisation or exemption under:

(a) that section or any other of those sections; or

(b) any other section of this Act.

130AAB References to the integrity or sustainability of a medicare program

(1) This section is made for the purposes of the following provisions:

(a) paragraph 129B(3)(a);

(b) paragraph 129C(3)(a);

(c) subparagraph 129E(3)(a)(i).

(2) For the purposes of each of those provisions, and the section in which the provision is located:

(a) a reference in the section to the purposes of the integrity or sustainability of a medicare program includes a reference to the need to ensure that access to the program is limited to circumstances where requirements or parameters (whether or not statutory) relating to the program are met; and

(b) a reference in the section to a collection, use or disclosure being for those purposes is taken to include a reference to the collection, use or disclosure being for the purposes of ensuring that the delivery of the program is not compromised by mistakes, misconduct, fraud or non-compliance, including in relation to those requirements or parameters.

130AAC Information relating to deceased persons

Sections 129B, 129C, 129D, 129E, 129F, 130, 130AAA and 130AAB apply in relation to information relating to a deceased person in the same way as they apply in relation to information relating to a person who is not deceased.