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PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 68
Offences relating to dealings with Privacy Commissioner
(1) A person must not-- (a) without lawful excuse, wilfully obstruct, hinder
or resist the Privacy Commissioner or a member of the staff of the
Privacy Commissioner in the exercise of functions under this or any other Act,
or
(b) without lawful excuse, refuse or wilfully fail to comply with any
lawful requirement of the Privacy Commissioner or a member of the staff of the
Privacy Commissioner under this or any other Act, or
(c) wilfully make any
false statement to or mislead, or attempt to mislead, the Privacy Commissioner
or a member of the staff of the Privacy Commissioner in the exercise of
functions under this or any other Act.
: Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(2) A person must not directly or indirectly-- (a) if the person is not the
Privacy Commissioner--represent that he or she is the Privacy Commissioner, or
(b) if the person has not been appointed under this Act as acting
Privacy Commissioner--represent that he or she has been so appointed, or
(c)
if the person is not a person to whom a delegation has been made under this
Act or the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 --represent that
he or she is such a person, or
(d) if the person is not a member of the staff
of the Privacy Commissioner--represent that he or she is a member of that
staff.
: Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(3) For the purposes of
subsection (2), a person represents that a state of affairs exists if the
person does or says anything, or causes, permits or suffers anything to be
done or said, whereby it is represented, or whereby a belief may be induced,
that the state of affairs exists.
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