Suicide Prevention Act 2021

This section applies to the following persons and bodies:

the Chief Public Health Officer;

the Chief Psychiatrist;

the Suicide Prevention Council;

a State authority;

the State Coroner;

the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages;

any other person or body declared by the regulations to be included in the ambit of this subsection.

Despite any other Act or law, a person or body to whom this section applies (the provider) may, in accordance with any requirements set out in the regulations, provide prescribed information and documents to another person or body to whom this section applies (the

to perform official functions relating to the health, safety, welfare and wellbeing of a particular person who may be at an increased risk of suicide or a class of persons who may be at an increased risk of suicide;

to manage any risk of suicide of persons who engage with or benefit from the services provided by a person or body to whom this section applies.

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 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 regardless of whether the provider has been requested to provide the information.

In this section—

information relating to the health, safety, welfare and wellbeing of a particular person who may be at an increased risk of suicide, or a class of persons who may be at an increased risk of suicide;

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