2nd Session, 40th Legislature
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Bill 4
THE PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION AMENDMENT ACT
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(Assented to )
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
The Personal Health Information Act is amended by this Act.
Subsection 63(1) is amended by striking out "or" at the end of clause (d), adding "or" at the end of clause (e) and adding the following after clause (e):
(f) knowingly falsifies another person's personal health information;
Subsection 63(2) is replaced with the following:
Offence by employee, officer or agent
Despite subsection 61(2), a person who is an employee, officer or agent of a trustee, information manager or health research organization who, without the authorization of the trustee, information manager or health research organization, wilfully
(a) discloses personal health information in circumstances where the trustee, information manager or health research organization would not be permitted to disclose the information under this Act; or
(b) uses, gains access to or attempts to gain access to another person's personal health information;
is guilty of an offence.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.