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ELECTORAL ACT 2004 - SECT 19

Disclosure of roll information

    (1)     This section applies to a person who is or has been:

        (a)     the Commissioner; or

        (b)     an officer; or

        (c)     a member of the staff of the Commission.

    (2)     The person must not directly or indirectly do any of the following:

        (a)     make a record of, or communicate to another person, information acquired by the person because of the person's involvement in the administration of this Act;

        (b)     give another person, or permit another person to have access to a copy of a roll, a roll extract, information contained on a roll or another document given to the person for the administration of this Act.

Maximum penalty:     400 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not apply:

        (a)     to the extent it is necessary for the person to do the thing:

            (i)     for this Act; or

            (ii)     for the proper conduct of an election under the Local Government Act 2019 ; or

        (b)     if the person is authorised or required by law to do the thing.



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