Queensland Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 2009 - SECT 140

140 Confidentiality

(1) This section applies to a prescribed person who has, in the course of administering this Act or because of an opportunity provided by involvement in administering this Act—

(a) acquired information about someone else; or

(b) gained access to a document about someone else.

(2) The prescribed person must not do either of the following—

(a) disclose to anyone else—

(i) the information; or

(ii) the contents of or information contained in the document;

(b) give access to the document to anyone else.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the disclosure of information, or the giving of access to a document, about a person—

(a) with the person’s consent; or

(b) in connection with the performance of a function under this Act; or

(c) as required or authorised under an Act or law, including under section 133 or 140A .

(4) In this section—

"prescribed person" means a person who is or has been involved in the administration of this Act, including a person who is or has been an official.