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Section : Use or disclosure-genetic information
Domain : Human Resource Management
Classification : Not Identified

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  • (4) A permitted health situation exists in relation to the use or disclosure by an organisation of genetic information about an individual (the first individual ) if:
  1. (a) the organisation has obtained the information in the course of providing a health service to the first individual; and
  2. (b) the organisation reasonably believes that the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to the life, health or safety of another individual who is a genetic relative of the first individual; and
  3. (c) the use or disclosure is conducted in accordance with guidelines approved under section 95AA; and
  4. (d) in the case of disclosure-the recipient of the information is a genetic relative of the first individual.

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