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

National Health Act 1953

141   After subsection 135A(17)

Insert:

Offence - conduct relating to information unlawfully disclosed

(17A) A person commits an offence if:

(a) protected information is disclosed to the person; and

(b) the disclosure contravenes this section; and

(c) the person:

(i) in any way solicited the disclosure of the information to the person; or

(ii) discloses the information to another person; or

(iii) uses the information otherwise than by disclosing it to another person.