My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016
My Health Records Act 2012
I, SUSSAN LEY, Minister for Health, make this Rule under subclause 1(1), and subparagraphs 5(2)(c)(i) and 13(2)(c)(i), of Schedule 1 to the My Health Records Act 2012.
Dated 2010
Dated 2/2/16
1. Name of Rule
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
Part 2 Trials of opt-out registration
4. Classes of healthcare recipients
5. Period to opt-out of registration
6. Period within which to make initial election on disclosure of health information
This Rule is the My Health Records (Opt-out Trials) Rule 2016.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
In this Rule, unless the contrary intention appears:
Act means the My Health Records Act 2012.
Medicare Address means the mailing address held by Medicare for correspondence with a healthcare recipient.
Note: Unless the contrary intention appears, terms used in this My Health Records (Opt-Out Trials) Rule has the same meaning as in the Act― see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
Part 2 Trials of opt-out registration
For the purposes of subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act, Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act applies to the classes of healthcare recipients who, on 3 March 2016, have a Medicare Address with a postcode listed in column 2 of the following table.
Trial sites for opt-out registration | |
Column 1 Opt-out Trial Area Name | Column 2 Postcodes Inclusive |
Northern Queensland Primary Health Network | 4705 4707 4721 4737 to 4746 4750 to 4751 4753 to 4754 4756 to 4757 4798 to 4812 4814 to 4822 4849 to 4850 4852 4854 to 4856 4858 to 4861 4865 4868 to 4888 4892 4895 |
Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network | 2178 2555 2745 2747 to 2750 2753 to 2760 2765 2773 to 2780 2782 to 2787 2790 2795 2845 to 2850 |
For the purpose of subparagraph 5(2)(c)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Act, if a healthcare recipient who is a member of a class of healthcare recipients prescribed under Rule 4 gives notice to the System Operator electing not to be registered for a My Health Record, the period within which the notice must be given commences on 4 April 2016 and ends on 27 May 2016.
(1) This Rule is made for the purpose of subparagraph 13(2)(c)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Act, and applies to healthcare recipients:
(a) who are a member of a class of healthcare recipients prescribed under Rule 4; and
(b) who have not elected to opt-out of registration within the period prescribed under Rule 5.
(2) If a healthcare recipient elects not to have health information about the healthcare recipient held by the Chief Executive Medicare made available to the System Operator, the healthcare recipient’s initial election must be given to the System Operator within the period commencing on 28 May 2016 and ending on 14 July 2016.
