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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) for the administration or enforcement of this Act; or
(c) with the consent of the person to whom the information relates; or
(d) as required by a court, tribunal, authority or person with lawful authority to require the production of documents or the answering of questions; or
(e) if the information is required to support the administration of—
(i) the Agents Financial Administration Act 2014 ; or
(ii) the Property Occupations Act 2014 ; or
(f) if the information is required for administering, receiving, holding or paying rental bonds; or
(g) as required or authorised under a law; or
(h) if the person reasonably considers it is necessary to prevent a serious risk to public safety.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(3) In this section—

"confidential information"
(a) means any information that—
(i) could identify an individual; or
(ii) is about a person’s criminal history; but
(b) does not include—
(i) information that is publicly available; or
(ii) 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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