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National Health (Data‑matching) Principles 2020 I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health, make the following principles.
Dated 22 December 2020
Greg Hunt Minister for Health
Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2—Good privacy practice 5 Publishing information about authorised information‑matching 6 Technical standards for authorised data‑matching programs 7 Evaluation of privacy practices for authorised information‑matching Part 3—Publicly available register 8 Publicly available register of kinds of information matched 9 Information that must be included on the publicly available register 10 Information that may be included on the publicly available register Part 4—Record‑keeping 11 General 12 Records for authorised data‑matching programs 13 Records of destruction of information and results 14 Sufficiency of records for assessment purposes Part 5—Destruction of personal information and results of matching 15 Destruction of personal information when no longer needed after matching 16 Destruction of results of matching when no longer needed 17 Destruction of personal information not to be matched Part 6—Accuracy, completeness and currency of personal information 18 Accuracy, completeness and currency of personal information Part 7—Decisions about matching of information 19 Decisions about matching of information 20 Decisions about necessary data fields and subjects
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name This instrument is the National Health (Data-matching) Principles 2020.
2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 5 January 2021
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