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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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