Associations Incorporation Act 1985

An authorised person who, by reason of the authority granted to him or her pursuant to this Act, acquires information must not, except to the extent necessary to perform his or her official duties or to perform a function or exercise a power authorised by this Act, make a record of, or divulge or make use of in any other way, the information acquired. Maximum penalty: $10 000.

Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person is not guilty of an offence if he or she—

produces a document to a court in the course of criminal proceedings or proceedings taken under this or any other Act; or

divulges to a court during the course of any proceedings referred to in paragraph (a), any matter or thing coming under his or her notice in the performance of his or her official duties or in the performance of a function or exercise of a power referred to in subsection (1); or

in the course of proceedings before the Tribunal, produces a document to the Tribunal or divulges to the Tribunal any matter or thing coming under his or her notice in the performance of his or her official duties or in the performance of a function or exercise of a power referred to in subsection (1); or

produces a document or divulges information to a person to whom, in the opinion of the Commission, it is in the public interest that the document be produced or the information be divulged; or

produces a document or divulges information that is required or permitted by any other Act to be produced or divulged, as the case may be.