New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1990 - SECT 26B

26B Purpose of obtaining information about students

(1) Information may be obtained under this Division solely for the following purposes--

(a) assisting the Minister, the Secretary or schools--

(i) to assess whether the enrolment or attendance of a particular student at a school is likely to constitute a risk (because of the behaviour of the student) to the health or safety of any person (including the student), and

(ii) to develop and maintain strategies to eliminate or minimise any such risk,

(b) assisting the Minister to exercise functions under section 26HA relating to non-attendance directions.

(2) Information about a student obtained under this Division is prohibited from being disclosed under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 except in response to an access application under that Act that is made by--

(a) the student the subject of the information, or

(b) a parent of the student, or

(c) any person nominated in writing by the student or a parent of the student.

(3) Nothing in this Division operates to prevent the provision or disclosure of information as required or permitted by or under any other Act or law (except as provided by subsection (2)).