https://privacy.org.nz/privacy-act-2020/codes-of-practice/hipc2020/
The Health Information Privacy Code applies to the health information about identifiable individuals and applies to:
- all agencies providing personal or public health or disability services such as primary health organisations, district health boards, rest homes, supported accommodation, doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and optometrists; and
- some agencies that do not provide health services to individuals but which are part of the health sector such as ACC, the Ministry of Health, the Health Research Council, health insurers and professional disciplinary bodies.