Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1989No. 63, 1989 - SECT 54

54. After section 63A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Dealing in information by employees of carriers

"63B. (1) An employee of a carrier may, in the performance of his or her
duties as such an employee, communicate or make use of, or cause to be
communicated, information (being information that has been lawfully obtained
or obtained by intercepting a communication in contravention of subsection 7
(1)) relating to:

   (a)  the operation or maintenance of a telecommunications network operated
        by the carrier; or

   (b)  the supply of services by the carrier by means of a telecommunications
        network.

"(2) An employee of a carrier may communicate or cause to be communicated to
another carrier, or to an employee of another carrier, information (being
information that has been lawfully obtained or obtained by intercepting a
communication in contravention of subsection 7 (1)) relating to:

   (a)  the operation or maintenance of a telecommunications network operated
        by the other carrier; or

   (b)  the supply of services by the other carrier by means of a
        telecommunications network; if the communication of the information is
        for the purpose of the carrying on by the other carrier of its
        business relating to the supply of services by means of a
        telecommunications network operated by the other carrier.".