Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1992 No. 367 MIGRATION (1993) REGULATIONS - REG 3.2

3.2. (1) With the written consent of the Minister, use may be made of
information collected under this Part in respect of persons, being information
that:

   (a)  is collected from passenger cards or passports, or contained in
        notified data bases (or both), by an officer of any Department or
        authority of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory; and

   (b)  is concerned with any of the following matters, namely, law
        enforcement, national security, national intelligence, education,
        health, community services, social welfare, employment, labour,
        taxation, statistics, quarantine, customs, excise.

(2) The consent of the Minister for the use of information concerned with a
matter specified in paragraph (1) (b) may be given in respect of a particular
occasion or any number of occasions.

(3) If:

   (a)  the Commonwealth has entered into an agreement with another country in
        relation to the provision of information concerning international
        movements of air traffic and passengers on international flights; and

   (b)  the Minister is satisfied that the provision to that country of the
        information specified in subregulation (4) would facilitate the
        handling of aircraft or of passengers travelling to destinations
        outside Australia; the Minister may cause that information to be
        provided to the immigration authorities of that country.

(4) The information mentioned in paragraph (3) (b) is the following
information in respect of passengers travelling to, or to and beyond, the
country referred to in that subregulation:

   (a)  name;

   (b)  date of birth;

   (c)  citizenship;

   (d)  passport number;

   (e)  date of departure from Australia;

   (f)  flight number;

   (g)  place of intended disembarkation;

   (h)  ultimate destination.

(5) If the Commonwealth enters into an agreement of a kind referred to in
paragraph (3) (a):

   (a)  he Minister must, as soon as is practicable, cause notice of the fact
        to be published in the Gazette; and

   (b)  information must not be made available under the agreement earlier
        than the day after the day on which the notice is published.