Queensland Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW ACT 2012 - SECT 42

42 Provision of information and assistance by Queensland information holder

(1) Despite any other Act or law, a Queensland information holder is authorised, on the Queensland information holder’s own initiative or at the request of the Regulator—

(a) to provide the Regulator with information (including personal information and information given in confidence) held by the department and reasonably required by the Regulator for administering the Law ; and

(b) to provide the Regulator with other assistance reasonably required by the Regulator to exercise a function under the Law .

(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that information given to the Regulator as authorised under subsection (1) is taken to be information obtained in the course of administering the Law , as mentioned in section 727 (1), definition
"protected information" , paragraph (a) of the Law .

(3) This section does not limit section 660 of the Law .

(4) Nothing done, or authorised to be done, by a Queensland information holder in acting under subsection (1) —

(a) constitutes a breach of, or default under, an Act or other law; or

(b) constitutes a breach of, or default under, a contract, agreement, understanding or undertaking; or

(c) constitutes a breach of a duty of confidence (whether arising by contract, in equity or by custom or in any other way); or

(d) constitutes a civil or criminal wrong; or

(e) terminates an agreement or obligation, or fulfils any condition that allows a person to terminate an agreement or obligation, or gives rise to any other right or remedy; or

(f) releases a surety or any other obligee wholly or in part from an obligation.

(5) In this section—

"Queensland information holder" means—

(a) the chief executive; or

(b) an officer or employee of the department who has access to information held by the department in the ordinary course of performing duties in the department.