s 24 Saving provision for personal information previously collected
24.—(1) As from the date on which any disease becomes a reportable disease for the purposes of this Act —(a) any personal information that had already been collected by a specified entity before that date pertaining to a person who had been diagnosed with or who had undergone treatment for that disease for the purposes of a national disease registry is deemed to be personal information that has been collected under and for the purposes of this Act in relation to that reportable disease; and (b) any person who had made a notification of any such personal information to the specified entity before that date is entitled to the same protection from liability under section 17(2) as if the person had made the notification under section 6 on or after that date. (2) In subsection (1), “specified entity” means any entity that is declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette to be a specified entity for the purposes of this section.