National Registry of Diseases Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Confidentiality and Disclosure
10. National public health programmes
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The Registrar may, with the approval of the Director‑General, disclose individually‑identifiable information held by the Registry to any public officer or any other person for the purpose of conducting national public health programmes concerning any reportable disease.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the person appointed by the Director under section 3 to be the Registrar of the Registry and includes a Deputy Registrar and an Assistant Registrar;
In determining whether to approve the disclosure under subsection (1), the Director‑General must, subject to subsection (3), have regard to —
the aims and objectives of the national public health programme, including any public health benefits to Singapore;
the identity of the public officers or persons involved in the programme to whom the individually‑identifiable information held by the Registry will be disclosed;
the use to which the individually‑identifiable information will or may be put; and
the measures that will be put in place under the national public health programme to protect the individually‑identifiable information from unauthorised disclosure.
The Director‑General must not approve any disclosure under subsection (1) unless the Director‑General is satisfied that the national public health programme cannot be carried out with anonymised information.
anonymised
“anonymised”, when used to describe information pertaining to an individual, means that the identity of that individual has been concealed or protected, whether by presenting the information in a statistical form or otherwise, such that it cannot be readily discovered or ascertained from that information;
The Director‑General may, when granting approval under subsection (1), impose the conditions that the Director‑General considers necessary with respect to —
the identities of the public officers or persons, or class of public officers or persons who are authorised to receive or handle the individually‑identifiable information;
the use to which the individually‑identifiable information is to or may be put; and
the measures that must be put in place under the national public health programme to protect the individually‑identifiable information from unauthorised disclosure.
The Director‑General may, at any time, vary or revoke any of the existing conditions imposed under subsection (4) or impose new conditions.
The Director‑General may, at any time, revoke the approval given under subsection (1).
Any person who fails to comply with any condition imposed under subsection (4) or any new condition imposed under subsection (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.