Electoral Act 1992

This section applies if the commission—

is required to keep a register under this Act; or

receives a form under section 88 nominating a person as a candidate for an election; or

receives a notice under section 306A from a registered political party about the party’s endorsement, or proposed endorsement, of a person as a candidate for an election.

The commission may make information from the register, form or notice available for public inspection, including, for example, by publishing the information on the commission’s website.

However, the commission must not make restricted information available for public inspection under subsection (2).

The following information is restricted information—

if the commission is informed that an individual identified in the document is a silent elector or enrolled on the electoral roll of the Commonwealth or another State with status equivalent or similar to a silent elector—the address of the individual;

the street address of another individual (but not the individual’s suburb, town, city or other locality, or State);

an individual’s date of birth;

an individual’s contact details, including, for example, a telephone number or email address, unless the individual has consented to the contact details being made public;

the details of a bank account of an entity, including a State campaign account kept under section 215.

In this section—information, from a register, form or notice, includes—

a copy of—

a document included in the register; or

the form or notice; and

personal information about an individual.