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STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 134H
Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information
134H Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information
(1) An official must not disclose confidential information acquired by the
official in the official’s capacity to someone else unless the disclosure is
authorised under division 4 . Penalty— Maximum penalty—100 penalty
units.
(2) A person who knowingly acquires confidential information without
lawful authority must not disclose the information to someone else. Example—
A person employed by a cleaning contractor engaged by the State to clean reads
a document in the registrar’s office containing confidential information.
Penalty— Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(3) A person who
receives confidential information and knows, or ought reasonably to know, it
is confidential information must not disclose the information to someone else
unless the disclosure is authorised under division 4 . Penalty— Maximum
penalty—100 penalty units.
(4) However, subsection (3) does not apply to
the person if, under division 4 , the registrar disclosed the confidential
information to the person and the person disclosed the information— (a) to
the extent necessary to enable the person to exercise a power or perform a
function conferred on the person under a law for the administration or
enforcement of the law; or
(b) for the purpose for which the information was
disclosed to the person; or
(c) to someone else for any purpose if the
information relates to the person.
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