Hospital and Health Boards Regulation 2023

This section applies to a person’s personal information held by a health system employer if the person—

is or was a health service employee; or

is or was a public service employee employed in the department (a departmental public service employee); or

is being, or was, considered for appointment as a health service employee or departmental public service employee.

The health system employer (the first health system employer) may transfer or otherwise disclose the person’s personal information to another health system employer (the second health system employer) if—

the information was collected or held by the first health system employer in relation to the person’s employment or appointment with the employer; and

either—

for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(c) whose suitability for employment has not been finally assessed by the first health system employer—the person is being considered for appointment, or is appointed, by the second health system employer; or

in any other case—the person transfers or moves to, or is appointed by, the second health system employer.

This section applies—

to personal information held by a health system employer before or after the commencement; and

to matters not dealt with in section 274 of the Act.

For this section, a person is considered for appointment as a health service employee or departmental public service employee if—

the person applied or otherwise expressed an interest in being appointed; and

the person’s suitability for employment has not been finally assessed.

In this section—

personal information see the Information Privacy Act 2009, section 12.