Disability Inclusion Act 2018

This section applies to the following persons and bodies:

a

a community visitor;

any other person or body prescribed by the regulations.

Despite any other Act or law, a person or body to whom this section applies (the provider) may, in accordance with any requirement set out in the regulations, provide prescribed information and documents to another person or body to whom this section applies (the recipient) if the provider reasonably believes that the provision of the information or documents would assist the recipient—

to perform functions relating to people with disability; or

to manage any risk to a person with disability, or class of people with disability, that might arise in the recipient’s capacity as an employer or provider of services.

Subject to this section, but despite any other Act or law, information or documents that do not directly or indirectly disclose the identity of any person may be provided by one person or body to whom this section applies to another without restriction.

Subsection (3) applies—

whether or not the information or documents consist of or include prescribed information and documents; and

whether or not the information or document ever disclosed the identity of a person, or has been redacted so as to de-identify it.

Information may be provided under this section whether or not the provider has been requested to provide the information.

Despite section 29, the recipient of information or documents under this section must not disclose information or documents received under this section except—

to another person or body to whom this section applies; or

as may be authorised by the regulations.

In this section—

information or documents relating to the health, safety, welfare or wellbeing of a particular person with disability, or class of people with disability; or

any other information or document of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.