Legislation

Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 No 71 (NSW)

NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

Version

Current version for 30 September 2026 to date

Last read

7 October 2026

The NSW Act that sets the Health Privacy Principles (Schedule 1) and applies to every organisation that is a health service provider or that collects, holds or uses health information, so it reaches a private clinic as well as the public sector. It carries the NSW retention rule for private health service providers in section 25 (seven years from the last service for an adult, or until age 25 for a child), the right of access in Division 3 of Part 4 and the privacy complaint route to the NSW Privacy Commissioner. It applies alongside the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988, not in place of it.

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