Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Division 2 does not prohibit a disclosure by a person of information or a document if the person makes the disclosure as a witness summoned to give evidence or to produce documents.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), this section does not apply to a disclosure of information or a document by a person as a witness in a civil proceeding if the information or document:
(a) is kept, by a service provider (within the meaning of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 ), solely for the purpose of complying with Part 5-1A of that Act; and
(b) is not used or disclosed by the service provider for any purpose other than one or more of the following purposes:
(i) complying with Part 5-1A of that Act;
(ii) complying with the requirements of warrants under Chapters 2 and 3 of that Act or authorisations under Chapter 4 of that Act;
(iii) complying with requests or requirements to make disclosures provided for by sections 284 to 288 of this Act;
(iv) providing persons with access to their personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 ;
(v) a purpose prescribed by the regulations;
(vi) a purpose incidental to any of the purposes referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (v).
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply:
(a) in circumstances of a kind prescribed by the regulations; or
(b) to a disclosure to an enforcement agency (within the meaning of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 ); or
(c) to a disclosure that occurs during the implementation phase (within the meaning of that Act).