Corrections Act 1997

If the Secretary reasonably considers it appropriate, the Secretary may release information about a prisoner or forensic patient to a person listed in the eligible persons register in respect of the prisoner or forensic patient including, but not limited to, information about any one or more of the following:the prisoner's or forensic patient's current location; the prisoner's or forensic patient's security classification; the prisoner's or forensic patient's transfer between prisons; the prisoner's or forensic patient's eligibility dates for discharge or release; the prisoner's or forensic patient's date of discharge or release; the results of the prisoner's or forensic patient's applications for parole orders; the death or escape of, or other exceptional events relating to, the prisoner or forensic patient.

If a nomination under section 87A(5) has been accepted under section 87A(6), the Secretary may give the information to the person or organisation accepted as nominee.