Partnership Act 1963

In this section:

court includes a tribunal or other entity with power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.

person to whom this section applies means—

the commissioner for fair trading; or

anyone else employed or engaged in the administration of this part.

produce includes allow access to.

protected information means information obtained under this part by a person to whom this section applies because of the exercise of a function under this part.

A person commits an offence if—

the person is a person to whom this section applies; and

the person—

makes a record of protected information; or

directly or indirectly, divulges or communicates protected information to someone else; and

the record is not made, or the information is not divulged or communicated, in relation to the exercise of a function, as a person to whom this section applies, under this Act or another territory law.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

Subsection (2) does not prevent a person to whom this section applies from divulging or communicating protected information—

with the consent of the person from whom the information was obtained; or

to a law enforcement authority.

A person to whom this section applies need not divulge or communicate protected information to a court, or produce a document containing protected information to a court, unless it is necessary to do so for this Act or another territory law.