Legislation

Health Records and Information Privacy Regulation 2022 (NSW)

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

Version: Current version for 19 June 2026 to date
Last read: 7 October 2026

The Regulation made under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. It prescribes further services as health services, sets extra circumstances in which health information can be used or disclosed for a secondary purpose (including when a Council asks for it to assist with a complaint against a registered practitioner under Part 8 of the National Law (NSW) or the Health Care Complaints Act) and covers the Commonwealth's national digital health record system and certain public sector arrangements. None of its prescribed health services is a cosmetic or aesthetic service.

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