New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE) ACT 2007 - SECT 98D

98D Disclosure of information by all agencies in case of threat

(1) This section applies if an agency believes on reasonable grounds that a person (the
"threatened person" ) is subject to a domestic violence threat.

(2) The agency may disclose personal information and health information about the threatened person and any person that the agency reasonably believes is a cause of the threat (the
"threatening person" ) to the central referral point or a local co-ordination point for contact purposes.

(3) Any such disclosure requires the consent of the threatened person. No consent is required from the threatening person.

(4) In such a case-

(a) the threatened person is taken, for the purposes of this Division, to be a primary person, and

(b) the threatening person is taken, for the purposes of this Division, to be an associated respondent.