Dinitrophenol deaths

S made this Government Information (Public Access) request to NSW Ministry of Health

This request has been closed to new correspondence from the public body. Contact us if you think it ought be re-opened.

The request was successful.

Dear NSW Ministry of Health,

If I pay $30 for dinitrophenol fatalities from 2015 to present date, will it also include the names, ages and sex of each person who died from dinotrophenol?

Yours faithfully,

S

Dear S

I provide a Fact Sheet: Guide to Privacy Laws in NSW
https://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/guide-privacy...

Under legislation, any information from health records which identifies a person will not be released.

I refer you to The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998
https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/vie...
and to the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002
https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/vie...

There is a lot of information about Information Access and Privacy available on the Information and Privacy Commission website:
https://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/

Regards
Rhonda Smartt
GIPA Officer | Corporate Governance and Risk Management, Legal and Regulatory Services
[email address]

show quoted sections

Locutus Sum left an annotation ()

The applicant made a request that I think I will call a "metarequest". He ask for information about what MIGHT happen IF he made a formal request. The agency has answered the metarequest as much as is possible and the applicant has not made an additional request on this page.