Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information
134H Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information
An official must not disclose confidential information acquired by the official in the official’s capacity to someone else unless the disclosure is authorised under division 4.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
A person who knowingly acquires confidential information without lawful authority must not disclose the information to someone else.
Example—
A person employed by a cleaning contractor engaged by the State to clean reads a document in the registrar’s office containing confidential information.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
A person who receives confidential information and knows, or ought reasonably to know, it is confidential information must not disclose the information to someone else unless the disclosure is authorised under division 4.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
However, subsection (3) does not apply to the person if, under division 4, the registrar disclosed the confidential information to the person and the person disclosed the information—
to the extent necessary to enable the person to exercise a power or perform a function conferred on the person under a law for the administration or enforcement of the law; or
for the purpose for which the information was disclosed to the person; or
to someone else for any purpose if the information relates to the person.
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