Commonwealth Quality Assurance Activity Declarations (1992-2016)

This dataset contains research data associated with the declaration by the Commonwealth Minister for Health of quality assurance activities under provisions of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) as created by the Health Insurance (Quality Assurance Confidentiality) Amendment Act 1992 (Cth). A declaration of a quality assurance activity provides a form of qualified privilege for the activity and resulting data generated by it. This includes provisions that create a criminal penalty for disclosure of information relating to a declared quality assurance activity, that a person cannot be required to produce to a court a document that was brought into existence solely for the purposes of a declared quality assurance activity or to disclose to a court any information that became known solely as a result of such an activity and immunity from suit of members of assessment or evaluation committees in certain circumstances. The dataset contains a register of declarations made since its enactment in 1992, copies of legislative instruments (the declarations and accompanying documentation) published in the Commonwealth Gazette or the Legislative Instrument Register of the Commonwealth. The data forms part of a larger project which investigates the incidence and use of quality assurance declarations in the jurisdiction.