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s 166

Offence: offering to supply protected information

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Volume 2Parts 6 to 10 (sections 153 to 235)
Part 6Provisions relating to information
Division 2Confidentiality

166 Offence: offering to supply protected information

(1)

A person must not offer to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise) information about another person, knowing the information to be protected information.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(2)

A person must not hold himself or herself out as being able to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise) information about another person, knowing the information to be protected information.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(3)

Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) has the effect that an officer acting in the performance or exercise of his or her powers, duties or functions under the family assistance law commits an offence.

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