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GAMBLING (TWO-UP) ACT 1998 - SECT 29
Secrecy
29 Secrecy
(1) A person who acquires information in the exercise of functions under Part
3 must not, directly or indirectly, make a record of the information or
divulge the information to another person, except in the exercise of functions
under Part 3. Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(2) Despite subsection (1),
information may be divulged: (a) to a particular person or persons, if the
Minister certifies that it is necessary in the public interest that the
information be divulged to the person or persons, or
(b) to a person, or an
authority, prescribed by the regulations, or
(c) to a person who is expressly
or impliedly authorised to obtain it by the person to whom the information
relates.
(3) It is not an offence under this section if, in any legal
proceedings, a person divulges the information: (a) in answer to a question
that the person is compellable to answer, or
(b) by providing a document or
other thing that the person is compellable to produce.
(4) An authority or
person to whom information is divulged under this section, and a person or
employee under the control of that authority or person, are, in respect of
that information, subject to the same rights, privileges and duties under this
section as they would be if that authority, person or employee were a person
exercising functions under Part 3 and had acquired the information in the
exercise of those functions.
(5) This section does not apply to the divulging
of information to, or the production of any document or other thing to, any of
the following: (a) the Independent Commission Against Corruption,
(b) the
Australian Crime Commission,
(c) the New South Wales Crime Commission,
(d)
the Ombudsman,
(e) any other person or body prescribed by the regulations for
the purposes of this subsection.
(7) In this section, a reference to the
divulging of information includes a reference to the production of a document
or other thing and the provision of access to the document or other thing.
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