Data Sharing (Government Sector) Act 2015

Subject to subsection (2), a disclosure of government sector data by a government sector agency to the DAC or to another government sector agency is lawful for the purposes of any other Act or law that would otherwise operate to prohibit that disclosure (whether or not the prohibition is subject to specified qualifications or exceptions) if—

this Act provides that the agency is authorised to share the data with the DAC or other government sector agency, and

the agency provides the data to the data recipient only for the purpose to which the authorisation to share relates.

Nothing in this Act authorises, permits or requires the DAC or another government sector agency—

to collect, use, disclose, protect, keep, retain or dispose of any government sector data that is health information or personal information otherwise than in compliance with the privacy legislation, or

to disclose any government sector data that is—

excluded information of an agency specified in Schedule 2 to the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (being any information that relates to any function specified in that Schedule in relation to the agency), or

information of a kind described in Schedule 1 to that Act, or

to deal with any government sector data to which the State Records Act 1998 applies after it is shared under this Act otherwise than in compliance with the State Records Act 1998.

This Act is not intended to prevent or discourage the sharing of government sector data by government sector agencies as permitted or required by or under any Act or other law (apart from this Act).