Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1989No. 63, 1989 - SECT 32

32. Sections 14 to 18 (inclusive) of the Principal Act are repealed and the
following section is substituted: Duty of AUSSAT's employees not to disclose
contents of communications etc.

"14. (1) Subject to subsection (2), it is the duty of a person who is an
employee of AUSSAT not to disclose any fact or document that:

   (a)  relates to:

        (i)    the contents or substance of a communication that has been
               carried by AUSSAT or a communication in the course of
               telecommunications carriage;

        (ii)   telecommunications services supplied, or intended to be
               supplied, to another person by AUSSAT; or

        (iii)  the affairs or personal particulars (including any unlisted
               telephone number or any address) of another person; and

   (b)  comes to the person's knowledge, or into the person's possession,
        because the person is an employee of AUSSAT.

"(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a disclosure by a person:

   (a)  in the performance of the person's duties as an employee of AUSSAT;

   (b)  as a witness summonsed to give evidence, or to produce documents, in a
        court of law;

   (c)  under the requirements of a law of the Commonwealth; or

   (d)  in prescribed circumstances.

"(3) This section does not limit by implication any duty that a person who is
or has been an employee of AUSSAT has apart from this section.

"(4) In this section:
'communication in the course of telecommunications carriage' means a
communication that is being carried by AUSSAT, and includes a communication
that has been collected or received by AUSSAT for carriage by it, but has not
been delivered by it;
'employee', in relation to AUSSAT, includes a person who performs services for
or on behalf of AUSSAT and an employee of such a person.".