Victorian Current Acts

INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 184

S. 184(1) amended by No. 30/2016 s. 46(15), substituted by No. 2/2019 s. 130.

    (1)     A person who made a complaint who is notified by the IBAC under section 59(1) or (2), other than a person notified that the IBAC has dismissed the complaint under  section 58(a), must not disclose the content of the notification except in the circumstances specified in subsection (5).

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment or both.

Note

Section 185 applies to an offence against this subsection.

    (2)     A complainant who receives information under section 163(1) or (2) must not disclose that information except in the circumstances specified in subsection (5).

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment or both.

Note to s. 184(2) inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 46(16).

Note

Section 185 applies to an offence against this subsection.

    (3)     A person who receives information referred to in subsection (1) or (2) in any circumstance specified in subsection (5) must not disclose that information except in the circumstances specified in subsection (5).

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment or both.

Note to s. 184(3) inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 46(17).

Note

Section 185 applies to an offence against this subsection.

    (4)     A person other than a person referred to in subsection (3) who receives information referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3) from a person referred to in those subsections must not disclose that information except in the circumstances specified in subsection (5).

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment or both.

Note to s. 184(4) inserted by No. 30/2016 s. 46(18).

Note

Section 185 applies to an offence against this subsection.

    (5)     For the purposes of this section, the specified circumstances are—

        (a)     disclosure to any person where necessary for the purposes of obtaining any information, document or other thing to comply with a witness summons, a confidentiality notice, a notice cancelling a confidentiality notice or an order extending a confidentiality notice under section 42 or to comply with this section, including if the person—

              (i)     does not have a sufficient knowledge of the English language to understand the nature of the witness summons, a confidentiality notice, a notice cancelling a confidentiality notice or an order extending a confidentiality notice under section 42 or this section, to an interpreter;

              (ii)     is a person under the age of 18 years, to a parent, guardian or independent person;

              (iii)     is a person who is illiterate or has a mental, physical or other impairment which prevents the person from understanding the witness summons, a confidentiality notice, a notice cancelling a confidentiality notice, an order extending a confidentiality notice under section 42 or this section without assistance, to an independent person;

        (b)     disclosure for the purposes of obtaining legal advice or representation in relation to—

              (i)     a witness summons, a confidentiality notice, a notice cancelling a confidentiality notice, an order extending a confidentiality notice under  section 42 or compliance with this section;

S. 184(5)(b)(ii) amended by No. 2/2019 s. 57(Sch.  1 Pt A item 22).

              (ii)     the person's rights, liabilities, obligations and privileges under this Act or the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 ;

        (c)     disclosure by an Australian legal practitioner who receives a disclosure in the circumstances specified in paragraph (b), for the purposes of complying with a legal duty of disclosure or a professional obligation arising from his or her professional relationship with his or her client;

        (d)     disclosure for the purposes of making a complaint to the Victorian Inspectorate;

        (e)     disclosure for the purposes of complying with a witness summons served on a person by the Victorian Inspectorate under the Victorian Inspectorate Act 2011 ;

        (f)     disclosure of information that has been published by the IBAC in a report or has otherwise been made public in accordance with this Act;

        (g)     disclosure to a person's spouse or domestic partner;

        (h)     disclosure to a person's employer or manager or both;

              (i)     disclosure as is otherwise authorised or required to be made by or under this Act.

S. 185 inserted by No. 13/2012 s. 9 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 148(3)), substituted by No. 30/2016 s. 44.