Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 69

69 Access to the register to be restricted

(1) The police commissioner must ensure—

(a) that the register, or any part of the register, is only accessed by a person, or a class of person, who is authorised to do so by the police commissioner; and

(b) that personal information in the register is only disclosed by a person with access to the register, or the relevant part of the register, in circumstances authorised by the police commissioner or as otherwise required by or under any Act or law.

(2) The police commissioner must develop guidelines about the access to, and disclosure of, personal information in the register that attempt to ensure that access to the personal information in the register is restricted to the greatest extent possible without interfering with the purpose of this Act.

(3) For this section, the register includes any information from any register maintained under a corresponding Act that is accessible by the police commissioner, regardless of whether or not that information is physically part of the register.

(4) This section has effect despite any other Act or law to the contrary.