Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 527

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.