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<div style="font-size:13pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;">Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act</div></div><div class="Border" id="Rd" isRecord="TRUE">
<div class="body right italic" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align: right;">Assented to June 19, 2009</div></div></div><div class="Border" id="id-pr"><div class="body definitions enact">Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:</div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_1-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div class="Border head-3 sectionheading">Definitions</div><span class="label "><span class="label bold " style="margin-right:20pt"><a name="codese:1" title="Français" href="javascript:displayOtherLang(\'codese:1\');">
1</a></span>The following definitions apply in this Act. </span><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:agentmandataire" isRecord="TRUE">
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</div><div><span class="text-current">“agent” </span>, in relation to a custodian, means an information manager or an individual or organization that acts for or on behalf of the custodian in respect of personal health information for the purposes of the custodian and not for the agent’s own purposes, whether or not the information manager, individual or organization is remunerated by the custodian, but does not include an employee of the custodian.<span class="body italic">(mandataire)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:jourouvrablebusinessday" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“business day” </span> means a day other than a Saturday or a holiday as defined in the <span class="italic">Interpretation Act</span>. <span class="body italic">(jour ouvrable)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:commissioner" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“Commissioner” </span><span class="repealed-parent-text">Repealed: 2019, c.19, s.5</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:common-lawpartnerconjointdefait" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“common-law partner” </span>, in relation to any person, means a person who, not being the spouse of that person, is residing with that person and who has cohabited continuously in a conjugal relationship with that person for at least 2 years.<span class="body italic">(conjoint de fait)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:commonorintegratedservice-programoractivityservice-programmeouactivitecommunouintegre" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“common or integrated service, program or activity” </span> means a common or integrated service, program or activity as defined in the <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span>.<span class="body italic">(service, programme ou activité commun ou intégré)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“custodian” </span> means an individual or organization that collects, maintains or uses personal health information for the purpose of providing or assisting in the provision of health care or treatment or the planning and management of the health care system or delivering a government program or service and includes<span class="body italic">(dépositaire)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>health care providers who are not agents or employees of a custodian, </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:c" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>c<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>the Minister,</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the following organizations or agencies: </div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d-p2:i" isRecord="TRUE">
<div class="body Subparagraph"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><div class="indent-2-2 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class="label">(i<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>EM/ANB Inc.,</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d-p2:ii" isRecord="TRUE">
<div class="body Subparagraph"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><div class="indent-2-2 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class="label">(ii<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>the New Brunswick Health Council, </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d-p2:iii" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span><span class="repealed-parent-text">Repealed: 2015, c.44, s.99</span></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d-p2:iv" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission, and</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:d-p2:vi" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the Canadian Blood Services,</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:custodiandepositaire-p1:e" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>a person designated in the regulations as a custodian.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:datamatchingappariementdedonnees" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“data matching” </span> means the creation of identifying information by combining identifying information or de-identified personal health information or other information from 2 or more electronic data bases or 2 or more electronic records.<span class="body italic">(appariement de données)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:de-identifiedanonymise" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“de-identified” </span>, when referring to personal health information, means personal health information from which all identifying information has been removed.<span class="body italic">(anonymisé)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:healthcaresoinsdesante" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“health care” </span> means any observation, examination, assessment, care, service or procedure that is carried out or provided for a health-related purpose and<span class="body italic">(soins de santé)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:healthcaresoinsdesante-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div class="body provision"><div class="provision">and includes</div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:healthcaresoinsdesante-p1:d" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div><span class="text-current">“health care facility” </span> means<span class="body italic">(établissement de soins de santé)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:healthcarefacilityetablissementdesoinsdesante-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div><span class="text-current">“health care provider” </span> means a person who is registered or licensed to provide health care under an Act of the Legislature or who is a member of a class of persons designated as a health care provider in the regulations. <span class="body italic">(fournisseur de soins de santé)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:identifyinginformationrenseignementsidentificatoires" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“identifying information” </span> means information that identifies an individual or for which it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual.<span class="body italic">(renseignements identificatoires)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:informationmanagergestionnairedelinformation" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“information manager” </span> means an individual or organization that on behalf of a custodian<span class="body italic">(gestionnaire de l’information)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:informationmanagergestionnairedelinformation-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div><span class="text-current">“information practices” </span>, in relation to a custodian, means the policy of the custodian governing actions in relation to personal health information, including<span class="body italic">(pratiques relatives aux renseignements)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:informationpracticespratiquesrelativesauxrenseignements-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the administrative, technical and physical safeguards and practices that the custodian maintains with respect to the information.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:integratedservice-programoractivity" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“integrated service, program or activity” </span><span class="repealed-parent-text">Repealed: 2017, c.31, s.71</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:ministerministre" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“Minister” </span> means the Minister of Health.<span class="body italic">(ministre)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:ombudombud" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div><span class="text-current">“personal health information” </span> means identifying information about an individual in oral or recorded form if the information <span class="body italic">(renseignements personnels sur la santé)</span><div class="Border" id="se:1-df:personalhealthinformationrenseignementspersonnelssurlasante-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div><span class="text-current">“pharmacy” </span> means a shop, store or place of business holding a valid certificate of accreditation under the <span class="italic">Pharmacy Act</span>.<span class="body italic">(pharmacie)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:publicbodyorganismepublic" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“public body” </span> means a public body as defined in the <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span>.<span class="body italic">(organisme public)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:recorddocument" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“record” </span> means a record containing information in any form, including information that is oral, written, photographed, recorded or stored in any manner, on any storage medium or by graphic, electronic, mechanical or any other means, but does not include electronic software or any mechanism that produces records.<span class="body italic">(document)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:registrationinformationrenseignementsdinscription" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“registration information” </span> means information about an individual that is collected for the purpose of registering the individual for the provision of health care, and includes a health care number, hospital record number and any other identifier assigned to an individual.<span class="body italic">(renseignements d’inscription)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:researchrecherche" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“research” </span> means a systematic investigation designed to develop or establish principles, facts or general knowledge, or any combination of them, and includes the development, testing and evaluation of research.<span class="body italic">(recherche)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:researchdatacentrecentrededonneesderecherche" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“research data centre” </span> means a public body that compiles and links personal information or personal health information for the purposes of research, analysis or evidence-based decision-making.<span class="body italic">(centre de données de recherche)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:spouseconjoint" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“spouse” </span> in relation to any person, means a person who is married to and residing with that person.<span class="body italic">(conjoint)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:substitutedecision-makermandatairespecial" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“substitute decision-maker” </span>, in relation to an individual, means, unless the context requires otherwise, a person who is authorized under this Act to give, withhold or to withdraw consent on behalf and in the place of the individual with respect to the collection, use or disclosure of the individual’s personal health information.<span class="body italic">(mandataire spécial)</span></div></div><div class="Border" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:12pt;" id="se:1-df:useutiliser" isRecord="TRUE">
<div><span class="text-current">“use” </span> means to handle or deal with information and includes reproducing the information, but does not include disclosing the information.<span class="body italic">(utiliser)</span></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2009, c.53, s.1; 2012, c.49, s.1; 2013, c.47, s.6; 2015, c.44, s.99; 2016, c.53, s.26; 2017, c.29, s.1; 2017, c.30, s.2; 2017, c.31, s.71; 2017, c.45, s.5; 2019, c.19, s.5</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">4</span>(2)</a></span>Unless otherwise provided in this Act or the regulations, this Act does not apply to a record created or information held by a person under or for the purpose of the provisions of the following Acts of the Legislature, notwithstanding that the information would otherwise be considered to be personal health information or the person would otherwise be considered to be a custodian within the meaning of this Act: </div><div class="Border" id="se:4-ss:2-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">6</span>(1)</a></span>The <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span> does not apply to personal health information in the custody or under the control of a custodian unless this Act specifies otherwise.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:6-ss:1_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">6</span>(1.1)</a></span>Despite subsection (1), personal health information that is in the custody or under the control of a public body for the purposes of managing or administering a pension or other benefit program is excluded from the application of this Act and is subject to the <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span>.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:6-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">6</span>(3)</a></span>If a request is made under section 15 to correct information to which the <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span> applies, the request is deemed to be a request under section 40 of the <span class="italic">Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act</span> and that Act applies to the request as if it had been made under section 40 of that Act.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:6-ss:4" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">6</span>(4)</a></span>Subsection (2) or (3) does not apply if the custodian that receives the request is not a public body. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2016, c.28, s.81.1</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_2-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">10</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall respond to a request made under section 7 as promptly as required in the circumstances, but no later than 30 business days after receiving it, unless the time limit for responding is extended under subsection (6) or (7) or the request is transferred to another custodian under section 11. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:10-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">10</span>(7)</a></span>In any case referred to in subsection (6), the custodian may, if approved by the Ombud, extend the time limit for responding to a request for a period longer than 30 business days.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:10-ss:8" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">10</span>(8)</a></span>If the time limit for responding to a request is extended under subsection (6) or (7), the custodian shall send a written notice to the applicant setting out</div><div class="Border" id="se:10-ss:8-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">11</span>(1)</a></span>Within 10 business days after receiving a request under section 7, a custodian may transfer a request to another custodian if </div><div class="Border" id="se:11-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">13</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall permit an individual to examine a record free of charge and may, in accordance with the regulations, require an individual to pay to the custodian a fair and reasonable fee for search, preparation, copying and delivery services.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:13-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">13</span>(2)</a></span>The custodian may, in accordance with the regulations, if any, waive the payment of all or part of a fee.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:13-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">14</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian is not required to permit an individual to examine or copy his or her personal health information under this Part </div><div class="Border" id="se:14-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">15</span>(6)</a></span> If a custodian makes a correction or adds a statement of disagreement under this section, the custodian shall, when practicable, notify any other custodian or person to whom the personal health information has been disclosed about the correction or statement of disagreement. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:15-ss:7" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">15</span>(8)</a></span>A custodian shall not charge a fee in connection with a request for a correction made under this section. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2017, c.30, s.2; 2019, c.19, s.5</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_2-gb:l_c-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">17</span>(1)</a></span>If this Act or any other Act of the Legislature requires the consent of an individual to the collection, use or disclosure of personal health information by a custodian, the consent</div><div class="Border" id="se:17-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">17</span>(3)</a></span>Unless it is not reasonable in the circumstances to make the assumption, a custodian is entitled to assume that an individual knows the purpose of the collection, use or disclosure of the individual’s personal health information by a custodian if the custodian posts or makes readily available a notice describing the purpose where it is likely to come to the individual’s attention or provides the individual with such a notice.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:18" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">18</span>(1)</a></span>Unless it is not reasonable in the circumstances to make the assumption, a custodian is entitled to assume that he or she has the individual’s implied consent, and to assume the consent is knowledgeable, to collect or use the individual’s personal health information or to disclose that information to another custodian or person for the purpose of providing health care to that individual.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:18-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">18</span>(2)</a></span>If a custodian receives personal health information relating to an individual from the individual, the individual’s substitute decision-maker or another custodian for the purpose referred to in subsection (1), the custodian is entitled to assume that he or she has the individual’s continuing implied consent to collect, use or disclose the personal health information for that purpose, unless the custodian that receives the personal health information is aware that the individual has expressly withheld or withdrawn the consent. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:19" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">19</span>(3)</a></span>Additional requirements of what constitutes express consent of an individual may be prescribed by regulation. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2017, c.30, s.2</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:20" isRecord="TRUE">
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20</a></span>If an individual places a condition on his or her consent to have a custodian collect, use or disclose the individual’s personal health information, the condition is not effective to the extent that it purports to prohibit or restrict any recording of personal health information by a custodian that is required by law or by established standards of professional practice or institutional practice.</span></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:21" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">25</span>(2)</a></span>A person referred to in subsection (1) may consent only if the person </div><div class="Border" id="se:25-ss:2-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">25</span>(3)</a></span>A person referred to in a paragraph of subsection (1) may assume the responsibility of making a decision only if no other person described in an earlier paragraph meets the requirements of subsection (2). </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:25-ss:4" isRecord="TRUE">
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25.1</a></span>Despite section 25, with respect to an involuntary patient who has not reached the age of 16 years, or who has reached the age of 16 years but is not mentally competent to give or refuse to give consent, the substitute decision-maker of the person is determined in accordance with section 8.6 of the <span class="italic">Mental Health Act</span>, with the necessary modifications. </span><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2017, c.29, s.1</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:26" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>if the individual is incapable or deceased, the person knows the individual held when capable or alive and believes the individual would have wanted reflected in decisions made concerning the individual’s personal health information, </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:26-p1:c" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>verifying the eligibility of an individual who is participating in a health care program or receiving a benefit, product or health care service from a custodian to participate in the program or to receive the benefit, product or service,</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:j" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>a function of the custodian under this Act, </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:k" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>paragraph (<span class="normal">j</span>) also applies to a custodian who is a Minister of the Crown for the purposes set out in that paragraph when engaged in a function related to the delivery or administration of health care in the Province, </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:l" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the custodian collects information for the purpose of analysis or compiling statistical information respecting the management, evaluation or monitoring of the allocation of resources to, or planning for all or part of, the health care system, including the delivery of services, and the person from whom the information is collected has in place practices and procedures to protect the privacy of the individual whose personal health information it receives and to maintain the confidentiality of the information,</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:l_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>delivering public education, </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:l_1-p2:ii" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>managing or administering school personnel employed in accordance with section 47.1 of the <span class="italic">Education Act</span>, or</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:l_1-p2:iii" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>obtaining proof of immunization under subsection 42.1(6) of the <span class="italic">Public Health Act. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:m" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>the custodian is the Minister and is collecting personal health information from another custodian for the purposes of creating or maintaining an electronic health record, </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:m_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>m.1<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>the custodian is the Minister and is collecting personal health information from another custodian for the purposes of establishing or maintaining the notifiable disease registry or the immunization registry under the <span class="italic">Public Health Act, </span>or</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:28-p1:n" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>n<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>the custodian is the Minister, a research data centre or a researcher and is collecting the information from another custodian for the purpose of a research project that has been approved in accordance with an agreement referred to in paragraph 43.1(<span class="normal">a</span>). </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2016, c.7, s.3; 2017, c.29, s.1; 2017, c.30, s.2; 2019, c.22, s.1</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:29" isRecord="TRUE">
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29</a></span>Unless a custodian is required to do so by law, the custodian shall not collect</span><div class="Border" id="se:29-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>a<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>personal health information if other information will serve the same purpose as the personal health information, or</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:29-p1:b" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>b<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>more personal health information than is reasonably necessary to meet the purpose for which the information is collected. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2013, c.47, s.6</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:30" isRecord="TRUE">
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30</a></span>A custodian may collect personal health information that has been de-identified for any purpose.</span></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:31" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">31</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian who collects personal health information directly from the individual to whom the information relates shall, before it is collected or as soon as practicable afterwards, take reasonable steps to inform the individual </div><div class="Border" id="se:31-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>a<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>of the purpose for which the information is being collected, and</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:31-ss:1-p1:b" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>b<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>if the custodian is not a health care provider, how to contact an officer or employee of the custodian who can answer the individual’s questions about the collection. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:31-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">31</span>(2)</a></span>A custodian need not comply with subsection (1) if the custodian has recently provided the individual with the information referred to in that subsection about the collection of the same or similar personal health information for the same or a related purpose.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_4-gb:l_b-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">32</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall not use personal health information except as authorized under this Division.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:32-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">32</span>(2)</a></span>Every use by a custodian of personal health information shall be limited to the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it is used. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:32-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">32</span>(3)</a></span>A custodian shall limit the use of personal health information it maintains to those employees and agents of the custodian who need to know the information to carry out the purpose for which the information was collected or received or to carry out any of the permitted uses authorized under section 34. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:33" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">34</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian may use personal health information in its custody or under its control for one or more of the following purposes: </div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>for the purpose for which the information was collected or created and for all the functions reasonably necessary for carrying out that purpose, unless the individual expressly instructs otherwise; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:b" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>c<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>if the use of the information is authorized by this Act or by an Act of the Legislature or an Act of the Parliament of Canada;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:d" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>to prevent or reduce a risk of significant harm to the health or safety of the public or a group of people, the disclosure of which is clearly in the public interest; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:e" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>e<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>if the custodian is a public body, for planning or delivering programs or services that the custodian provides or that the custodian funds in whole or in part, allocating resources to any of those programs or services, evaluating or monitoring any of them or detecting, monitoring or preventing fraud or any unauthorized receipt of services or benefits related to any of them;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:e_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>if the custodian is a public body, for planning or delivering common or integrated services, programs or activities; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:e_2" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>if the custodian is a health care provider, for delivering common or integrated services, programs or activities;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:f" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>for the purpose of risk management, error management or for the purpose of activities to improve or maintain the quality of care or to improve or maintain the quality of any related programs or services of the custodian;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:g" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>for the purpose of disposing of the information or de-identifying the information;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:i" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>for the purpose of seeking the individual’s consent, or the consent of the individual’s substitute decision-maker, when the personal health information used by the custodian for this purpose is limited to the name, contact information and registration information of the individual and the name and contact information of the substitute decision-maker, if applicable;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:j" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>if the custodian is a Minister of the Crown, for the purpose of recovering health care costs;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:l" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>for the purpose of obtaining payment for or processing, monitoring, verifying or reimbursing claims for payment for the provision of health care or related goods and services;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:34-ss:1-p1:m" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">35</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall not disclose personal health information except as authorized under this Division.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:35-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">35</span>(2)</a></span>Every disclosure by a custodian of personal health information shall be limited to the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it is disclosed.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:35-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">35</span>(3)</a></span>A custodian shall limit the disclosure of personal health information it maintains to those employees and agents of the custodian who need to know the information to carry out the purpose for which the information was collected or received or to carry out a purpose authorized under section 37. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2009, c.53, s.4</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:36" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">37</span>(1)</a></span>Subject to subsection (2), the custodian may disclose an individual’s personal health information if </div><div class="Border" id="se:37-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">39</span>(2)</a></span>A custodian may disclose personal health information without the consent of the individual to whom the information relates to the superintendent of a correctional facility in which the individual is lawfully detained or to the administrator of a psychiatric facility in which the individual is lawfully detained under section 18 of the <span class="italic">Mental Health Act </span>to assist the facility in making a decision respecting </div><div class="Border" id="se:39-ss:2-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">40</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall disclose personal health information without the consent of the individual to whom the information relates to a body with statutory responsibility for the discipline of health care providers or for regulating the quality or standards of professional services provided by health care providers, including for the purpose of an investigation by that body.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:40-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">41</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian may disclose personal health information, including information relating to a person providing health care, without the consent of the individual to whom the information relates to a person carrying out an inspection, investigation or similar procedure that is authorized by or under this Act, another Act of the Legislature or the Parliament of Canada for the purpose of facilitating the inspection, investigation or similar procedure. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:41-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">41</span>(2)</a></span>A custodian may disclose personal health information, including information relating to a person providing health care, without the consent of the individual to whom the information relates to another custodian if the custodian disclosing the information has a reasonable expectation that disclosure will detect or prevent fraud, limit abuse in the use of health care or prevent the commission of an offence under an Act of the Legislature or the Parliament of Canada.</div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2017, c.30, s.2</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:42" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">45</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall, at the request of the Minister, disclose to the Minister personal health information without the consent of the individual to whom the information relates for the purpose of monitoring or verifying claims for payment for health care funded wholly or in part by the Province.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:45-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">45</span>(2)</a></span>The Minister may disclose information collected under subsection (1) to another person for a purpose set out in that subsection if the disclosure is reasonably necessary for that purpose. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:46" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">46</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian that discloses personal health information without consent for health related purposes, unless otherwise provided in subsection (2), shall make a note of the following: </div><div class="Border" id="se:46-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">46</span>(2)</a></span>Subsection (1) does not apply if the custodian discloses personal health information by permitting access to the information stored in the information system of the custodian, provided that when the information is accessed the data base automatically keeps an electronic log of the following information: </div><div class="Border" id="se:46-ss:2-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">48</span>(2)</a></span>An individual may refuse to provide his or her Medicare number to any person not authorized to require the production of the individual’s Medicare number or collect or use the individual’s Medicare number. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:48-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">49</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian shall </div><div class="Border" id="se:49-ss:1-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">50</span>(2)</a></span>The information practices referred to in subsection (1) shall be based on nationally or jurisdictionally recognized information technology security standards and processes, appropriate for the level of sensitivity of the personal health information to be protected.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:50-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">50</span>(3)</a></span>Without limiting subsection (1), a custodian shall </div><div class="Border" id="se:50-ss:3-p1:a" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">52</span>(1)</a></span>A custodian that retains the services of an agent for the collection, use, disclosure or retention of personal health information shall enter into a written agreement with the agent requiring the agent to comply with the custodian’s legal obligations regarding handling of personal health information. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:52-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">52</span>(2)</a></span> A custodian may provide personal health information to an information manager for the purpose of processing, storing or destroying the personal health information or providing the custodian with information management or information technology services. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:52-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">52</span>(3)</a></span>A custodian that wishes to provide personal health information to an information manager shall enter into a written agreement with the information manager, in accordance with the regulations, that provides for the protection of the personal health information against risks such as unauthorized access to or use or disclosure, secure destruction or alteration of the information. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:52-ss:4" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">54</span>(1)</a></span>Subject to this section, a custodian does not cease to be a custodian with respect to a record of personal health information until complete custody and control of the record passes to another person who is legally authorized to hold the record. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:54-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">56</span>(1.1)</a></span>Paragraph (1)(<span class="normal">a</span>) does not apply to the collection, use or disclosure of personal health information if the collection, use or disclosure is necessary for the delivery of an existing common or integrated service, program or activity.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:56-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">56</span>(2)</a></span>A privacy impact assessment shall describe, in the form and manner as may be prescribed by regulation, how the proposed administrative practices and information systems relating to the collection, use and disclosure of individually identifying health information may affect the privacy of the individual to whom the information relates.</div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2009, c.53, s.10; 2013, c.47, s.6; 2017, c.30, s.2; 2017, c.31, s.71</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:57" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">57</span>(2)</a></span>A custodian may perform data matching using personal health information in its custody or control, provided there is authority for the collection, use or disclosure of the personal health information being used for data matching or created as a result of data matching. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:57-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">57</span>(3)</a></span>A custodian is not required to conduct a privacy impact assessment if data matching is being done for an authorized purpose and will not result in a use of personal health information that will affect the privacy of the individual to whom the information relates. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2009, c.53, s.11</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_5-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">66</span>(3)</a></span>A matter referred to a judge of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick under subsection (1) shall be filed within 30 days after the date the decision of the custodian was made. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2019, c.19, s.5</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:67" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">68</span>(3)</a></span>Subject to section 75, if an individual has filed a complaint with the Ombud under subsection (1), the individual may not refer the matter under subsection 66(1) to a judge of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick for review.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:68-ss:4" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">70</span>(2)</a></span>The Ombud shall inform the person who made the complaint and the custodian, in writing, of his or her decision not to investigate the decision of the custodian or to cease an investigation in relation to a matter and the reasons for the Ombud’s decision.</div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2019, c.19, s.5</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:71" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">74</span>(2)</a></span>If the custodian accepts the recommendations in the Ombud’s report, the custodian shall, within 15 days after receiving the report, comply with the recommendations of the Ombud or make any other decision that the custodian considers appropriate.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:74-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">74</span>(3)</a></span>If the custodian fails to notify the individual under subsection (1) within 15 days after making his or her decision, the failure shall to be treated as a decision not to accept the recommendation of the Ombud.</div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2019, c.19, s.5</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:75" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">76</span>(2)</a></span>A person who is an employee of a custodian or information manager who, without the authorization of the custodian or information manager, discloses personal health information in wilful contravention of this Act in circumstances where the custodian or information manager would not be permitted to disclose the information under this Act, commits an offence. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:76-ss:3" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">76</span>(4)</a></span>No custodian or information manager shall be found to have contravened paragraph (3)(<span class="normal">a</span>) or (<span class="normal">b</span>) if the custodian or information manager can establish that he or she took all reasonable steps to prevent the contravention. </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:76-ss:5" isRecord="TRUE">
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</span></span></span>prescribing the individuals or organizations referred to in paragraph 3(2)(<span class="normal">c</span>) that collect, maintain or use personal health information for purposes other than health care or treatment and the planning and management of the health care system;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:g" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>g<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>specifying for the purposes of subsection 4(1) the Acts of the Legislature or provisions of the Acts of the Legislature over which this Act does not prevail; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:h" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>h<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
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(</span>i<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing an Act of the Legislature or any provision of an Act of the Legislature for the purposes of paragraph 4(2)(<span class="normal">b</span>);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:j" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>j<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span> prescribing the search, preparation, copying and delivery fees referred to in section 13, the amount that the fees cannot exceed and the waiver of the fees; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:k" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>k<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing for the purposes of paragraph 14(1)(<span class="normal">i</span>) a reason for which a custodian is not required to permit an individual to examine or copy his or her personal health information;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:l" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>l<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the contents of the permission referred to in paragraph 19(2)(<span class="normal">c</span>); </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:m" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>m<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing additional requirements of what constitutes express consent for the purposes of subsection 22(2); </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:n" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>n<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting the reasons for which and the method by which an individual may refuse to grant consent or withdraw his or her consent to the collection, use or disclosure of his or her personal health information; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:o" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>o<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing for the purposes of paragraph 34(1)(<span class="normal">n</span>) requirements and restrictions for the use of personal health information if the use is permitted or required by law or by a treaty, agreement or arrangement made under an Act of the Legislature or the Parliament of Canada;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:p" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>p<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting information networks referred to in paragraph 37(6)(<span class="normal">c</span>);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:q" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>q<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting the establishment of an electronic health record;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:r" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>r<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>designating a custodian for the purposes of paragraph 37(6)(<span class="normal">d</span>); </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:r_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>r.1<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing an entity for the purposes of paragraph 38(1)(<span class="normal">g.1</span>),</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:s" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>s<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span><span class="repealed-parent-text">Repealed: 2012, c.49, s.3</span></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:t" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>t<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing for the purposes of section 43 the requirements of an approval by a research review body and the agreement the custodian and the person proposing the research project must enter into;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:u" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>u<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>designating for the purposes of paragraph 44(2)(<span class="normal">b</span>) a person or body with whom the Minister may enter into agreements for the sharing of registration information without the consent of the individual;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:u_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>u.1<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>describing the circumstances in which a custodian may disclose personal health information relating to an individual that is collected in the Province to a person outside the Province; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:v" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>v<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>authorizing for the purposes of subsection 48(1) persons that may require the production of an individual’s Medicare number or collect or use an individual’s Medicare number;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:v_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>v.1<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing for the purposes of subsection 48(1.2) the purposes for which a public body may collect or use an individual’s Medicare number;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:w" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>w<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the manner of notification under paragraph 49(1)(<span class="normal">c</span>); </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:x" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>x<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the requirements of the information practices referred to in subsection 50(1);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:y" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>y<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing for the purposes of subsection 50(4) additional safeguards for personal health information maintained in electronic form; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:z" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>z<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting written agreement for the purposes of subsection 52(3);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:aa" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>aa<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing requirements to be contained in the written policy for the retention, archival storage, access and secure destruction of personal health information for the purposes of paragraph 55(1)(<span class="normal">a</span>);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:bb" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>bb<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the manner of consent for the purposes of paragraph 55(2)(<span class="normal">a</span>); </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:cc" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>cc<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting the personal health information in the custody or under the control of a custodian that may be stored outside Canada;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:cc_1" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>cc.1<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing a custodian that is a public body for the purposes of subsection 56(1);</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:cc_2" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>cc.2<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the form and manner of a privacy impact assessment; </div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:dd" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>dd<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span><span class="repealed-parent-text">Repealed: 2016, c.53, s.26</span></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:ee" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>ee<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span> respecting the referral of a matter under this Act to a judge of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick for review;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:ff" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>ff<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting an appeal of a matter under this Act to a judge of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick.</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:gg" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>gg<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>adopting by reference, in whole or in part and with such changes as are considered necessary, any code, standard, guideline or similar document and may require compliance with the code, standard or guideline,</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:hh" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>hh<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>defining any word or expression used in this Act but not defined in this Act;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:ii" isRecord="TRUE">
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</a><div class="body Paragraph"><div class="Border"><div class="indent-1-1 paragraph"><span class="label"><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
(</span>ii<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>prescribing the manner in which a notice or a record shall be given to a person under this Act;</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:1-p1:jj" isRecord="TRUE">
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(</span>jj<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span>respecting all other matters necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="se:79-ss:2" isRecord="TRUE">
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<span class="bold">79</span>(2)</a></span>A regulation under subsection (1) may be made to apply to particular classes of custodians or persons or to particular classes of personal health information. </div></div></div></div><div class="body historicalnote" style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">2009, c.53, s.12; 2012, c.49, s.3; 2016, c.53, s.26; 2017, c.29, s.1; 2017, c.30, s.2</div></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="ga:l_8-h1" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div class="Border head-3 sectionheading">Review of this Act </div><span class="label "><span class="label bold " style="margin-right:20pt"><a name="codese:80" title="Français" href="javascript:displayOtherLang(\'codese:80\');">
80</a></span>Within 4 years after this Act comes into force, the Minister shall undertake a comprehensive review of the operation of the Act and shall, within one year after the review is undertaken or within such further time as the Legislative Assembly may allow, submit a report on the review to the Assembly. </span></div></div></div><div class="Border bold italic" id="se:81" isRecord="TRUE">
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<div class="Border head-3 sectionheading">Commencement </div><span class="body bold italic"><span class="label bold " style="margin-right:20pt"><a name="codese:81" title="Français" href="javascript:displayOtherLang(\'codese:81\');">
81</a></span>This Act or any provision of it comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by proclamation.</span></div></div></div><div class="Border" id="na-nb:1" isRecord="TRUE">
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