Fines Reform Act 2014

A person must not intentionally and without lawful authority—

obtain access, or attempt to obtain access, to any data stored in a computer that is under the control of a contractor or sub-contractor and that relates to the contractor's operations under an administrative services agreement or was gained in the course of those operations; or

alter or delete, or attempt to alter or delete, any such data or enter, or attempt to enter, data into the database in which any such data is contained; or

interfere, or attempt to interfere, in any other way with a database containing any such data.

The Secretary, in writing, may authorise a person engaged or employed by a contactor or sub-contractor or any other person to do, in relation to all data referred to in subsection (1) or any such data of a specified class, anything that, but for that authorisation, the person would be prohibited from doing by subsection (1).

For the purposes of subsection (1), a person is taken as having lawful authority to do a thing referred to in that subsection if the person does that thing in the exercise of official powers or the discharge of official functions or duties—

in the case of a person engaged or employed by a contractor or sub‑contractor or any other person, the person is authorised to do that thing under subsection (2); and

in the case of a person who is—

the Director; or

the sheriff, a deputy sheriff or any person who is a bailiff for the purposes of the Supreme Court Act 1986; or

a police officer.