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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 527
Confidentiality
527 Confidentiality
(1) This section applies to a person— (a) who is, or has been, the chief
executive officer, a member of the authority’s board of directors, an
employee of the authority or the employing office, or an authorised person;
and
(b) who, in the course of administering this Act or because of
opportunity provided by involvement in administering this Act— (i) acquired
confidential information about someone else; or
(ii) gained access to a
document containing confidential information about someone else.
(2) The
person must not make a record of the information, disclose the information to
anyone else or give access to the document containing the information to
anyone else, other than— (a) for a purpose of this Act; or
(b) with the
consent of the person to whom the information relates; or
(c) in compliance
with lawful process requiring production of documents or giving of evidence
before a court or tribunal; or
(d) as expressly permitted or required by
another Act.
Penalty— Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(3) In
this section—
"confidential information" means information about a person’s affairs,
including the person’s criminal history, but does not include— (a)
information that is publicly available; or
(b) statistical or other
information that could not reasonably be expected to result in the
identification of the person to whom it relates.
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