The Law Handbook 2024

1244 Index emergency management days (EMDs) 234–5 COVID-19 pandemic 235 eligibility for 235 procedure for grant 235 employment 228 freedom of information 222 health services 226 complaints about 237 industrial dispute or emergency 234 initial risk assessment 224 Inside Access Program 799 intellectual disability 787, 814–16 sentencing offenders with 814–16 support services 815 transfer to residential institution 815–16 intermingling accused and convicted prisoners 223 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 223 international transfer 228 interstate transfer 227–8 leave 228–9 approved purposes 228 corrections administration permit 229 legal assistance 238–9 legal capacity 677 letters, sending and receiving 231–2 medical care 226 complaints about 237 private medical practitioner 226 mental health care 226, 814 complaints about 237 mental illness 226, 787, 814 forensic patient/resident 810–12 sentencing offenders with 813–14 specialist facilities 226, 814 support services 815 money 226–7 name change 309 offences by 232–4 Ombudsman complaints to 233, 236–7 corresponding with 231 review of disciplinary proceedings 233 telephone complaint facility 237 Opioid Substitution Therapy Program (OSTP) 226 orientation 224 parcels, sending and receiving 231–2 parole 225 interstate transfer on 228 voting by person on 234 payment for working 227 placement 224 Post Sentence Authority (PSA) 238 pre-sentence detention 224 privacy protection 1124 psychiatric facilities 226, 814 reception 224 rehabilitation and transition permit (RTP) 229 release Corrections Victoria Reintegration Pathway (CVRP) 229 custodial community permits 228 housing program 238 on licence 236 parole 225 programs 229 support services 229, 238 temporary leave 228–9 remand prisoners 223 voting 234 working 227 rights 220–3 access to information 222 Charter 220–1 discrimination law 222 international guidelines 222–3 limitation 221 remedies for breach of 221–2 unsentenced vs sentenced prisoners 223 security rating 224–5 application to change 225 placement, consideration in 224 sentence 225, 236 sentenced prisoners 223–4 serious violent or sex offenders 225 parole 225 smoking ban 234 social security benefits, no right to 227 standards for treatment of 220 storage of clothing and effects 224 support services 229, 238 telephone calls 231 temporary leave of absence 228–9 term of imprisonment 225 Thomas Embling Hospital 226, 814, 840 torture or inhumane treatment, protection from 222–3 transfer 227–8 between Victorian prisons 227 international 228 interstate 227–8 parole, people on, 228 unsentenced prisoners 223 Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 239 visitors see prison visitors VLA legal assistance 239 voting 234 workers compensation 227 working 227 privacy 1093–1125 see also confidentiality ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry 1096 access to information 1104, 1116, 1120 anonymity 1101, 1117, 1121 APPs see Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) bodily privacy 1093 breach of 1094–5, 1113–14 Charter of Rights 1123 codes 1100 common law protection 1094–5 communications privacy 1093 complaints 1113–14, 1118–19, 1122 compliance notices 1119, 1122 conciliation of disputes 1118 Consumer Data Right (CDR) 1113 contacts 1124–5 correction of information 1104, 1116 COVID-19 issues 1097 COVIDSafe app data 1097 credit providers 1097, 1105 credit reporting 453, 1097, 1105–8 Code 344, 453, 455, 1100, 1105 complaints 1113–14 cross-border disclosure 1103, 1117 data breach notification 1100, 1109 data matching 1109 data quality 1103, 1116, 1120 data security 1104, 1115–16, 1120 digital platforms 1095–6 direct marketing 1102–3 dispute resolution 1100, 1108 ‘do not call’ register 700, 1103, 1113 duty of confidence distinguished 1093 e-commerce 745 electronic health records 1110 external dispute resolution schemes 1100, 1108 freedom of information and 1108–9, 1126 APPs 1103, 1104, 1108 HPPs 1121 IPPs 1115, 1116 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 1124 genetic information 1110 Health Complaints Commissioner 1122, 1124 health information 871–3, 1110, 1119–23 information sharing principles 845–6 objects of Health Records Act 1119 Health Privacy Principles 871, 1120–23 complaints of breach 1122 exemptions 1121 summary of 1120–1 healthcare identifiers 1110, 1121 HIV/AIDS guidelines 873 Information Commissioner 1097, 1109 complaints to 1113–14 information privacy 1093 Information Privacy Principles (Vic) 1114–19 complaints of breach 1118–19 exemptions 1117–18 remedies for breach 1119 summary of 1116–17 information sharing entities 1118 information usage arrangement 1115 insurance 963 interception of telecommunications 1123–4 internet 742, 742 invasion of 1094–6 law enforcement agency exemption 1117 law enforcement data security 1115 law reform recommendations 1095–6 legislation 1097, 1100, 1108–13, 1123–4 other jurisdictions 1124 market research 1100 media industry standards 1099 medical records 871–3, 1110 information sharing principles 845–6 medical research 1109–10 Medicare Benefits Program 1111 My Health Record system 1110, 1111 National COVIDSafe Data Store 1097 notifiable data breaches 1100, 1109 Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) 1100 Ombudsman, complaints to 1118, 1123 personal information 1097–1105, 1114–19 APPs see Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) credit reporting 1105–8 definition 1097, 1114 information privacy 1093