Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Sections 276 and 277 do not prohibit a disclosure by a person (the discloser ) of information or a document if:
(a) the information is, or the document consists of, information (including unlisted telephone numbers) contained in an integrated public number database; and
(b) the disclosure is made to an emergency management person; and
(c) the emergency management person has given the discloser a written notice stating that the disclosure is for the purpose of the information, or the contents of the document, being later used or disclosed for either or both of the following:
(i) for a purpose connected with persons being alerted to an emergency or a likely emergency;
(ii) for the purpose of reasonable testing of whether, in the event of an emergency occurring, persons would be able to be alerted to that emergency.
(1A) A notice given as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) may cover one or more disclosures (including each disclosure in a series of disclosures under an arrangement between the discloser and the emergency management person).
(1B) A notice given as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) is not a legislative instrument.
(2) In this section:
"integrated public number database" means:
(a) an integrated public number database maintained by Telstra Limited as mentioned in Part 4 of Schedule 2; or
(b) an integrated public number database maintained by a person as mentioned in section 472.