Law / Canada / Northwest Territories
Health Information Act, notice of a breach of personal health information
archived copy
Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived . Publisher's page: https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/health-information/health-information.a.pdfIn force since .
A breach notification rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Breach notice
As of .
What it requires
- Subject to any exceptions the regulations prescribe, give notice to the individual as soon as reasonably possible if personal health information about the individual is used or disclosed other than as the Act permits, is lost or stolen, or is altered, destroyed or otherwise disposed of without authorization (s. 87).
- Where the regulations prescribe a person or organization to be notified, give that notice as well (s. 87).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
Subject to any prescribed exceptions, a health information custodian shall give notice to an individual, and to a prescribed person or organization if applicable, as soon as reasonably possible if personal health information about the individual is used or disclosed other than as permitted by the Act, lost or stolen, or altered, destroyed or otherwise disposed of without authorization.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app handles health records.