New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 62

62 Corrupt disclosure and use of personal information by public sector officials

(1) A public sector official must not, otherwise than in connection with the lawful exercise of his or her official functions, intentionally disclose or use any personal information about another person to which the official has or had access in the exercise of his or her official functions.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.

(2) A person must not induce or attempt to induce a public sector official (by way of a bribe or other similar corrupt conduct) to disclose any personal information about another person to which the official has or had access in the exercise of his or her official functions.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.

(3) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a public sector official from disclosing information about another person if the disclosure is--

(a) a public interest disclosure within the meaning of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 , or

(b) made for the purpose of exercising a function under that Act.

(4) In this section, a reference to a public sector official includes a reference to a person who was formerly a public sector official.