New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 28

28 Other exemptions

(1) The Ombudsman's Office, Children's Guardian, Health Care Complaints Commission, Anti-Discrimination Board, Ageing and Disability Commissioner and Guardianship Board are not required to comply with section 19.

(2) The information protection principles do not apply in respect of personal information collected or held by Multicultural NSW if--

(a) the information is collected or held by Multicultural NSW for the purpose only of translating the information, and

(b) all documents held by Multicultural NSW in which the information is contained are destroyed or returned to the person who submitted the information for translation when Multicultural NSW is satisfied that the documents are no longer required for the provision of the translation service, and

(c) in a case where it is necessary for the information to be given to another person in connection with the provision of the translation service, everything reasonably within the power of Multicultural NSW is done to prevent unauthorised disclosure of the information by that other person.

(3) Nothing in section 17, 18 or 19 prevents or restricts the disclosure of information--

(a) by a public sector agency to another public sector agency under the administration of the same Minister if the disclosure is for the purposes of informing that Minister about any matter within that administration, or

(b) by a public sector agency to any public sector agency under the administration of the Premier if the disclosure is for the purposes of informing the Premier about any matter.