Information sharing between official visitors
25A Information sharing between official visitors
An official visitor may give official visitor information to another official visitor (the receiving official visitor), and a receiving official visitor may use the information, if the information is necessary for the effective exercise of a function under this Act.
If a receiving official visitor uses official visitor information given to them under subsection (1)—
a secrecy requirement is taken to apply to the receiving official visitor in relation to the information; and
the receiving official visitor is taken to be a person engaged in the administration of the law that contains the secrecy requirement.
In this section:
official visitor information means information disclosed to, or obtained by, an official visitor in the exercise of a function under this Act.
secrecy requirement means a prohibition on the disclosure of information that applies to an official visitor in relation to official visitor information, whether the prohibition is absolute or subject to stated exceptions or qualifications.
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