Victorian Current Acts

PERSONAL SAFETY INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2010 - SECT 181

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a police officer applies to an organisation in the prescribed way for information held by the organisation about a respondent; and

        (b)     the purpose of the application is to assist a police officer to locate the respondent to enable a police officer to serve the respondent with a document under this Act.

    (2)     If the organisation has the information requested in the application, the organisation must give the police officer the information.

    (3)     Information provided by an organisation under subsection (2) to a police officer—

        (a)     must relate only to the respondent for whom an order has been made or is being sought under this Act; and

        (b)     must not be used by a police officer for any purpose other than locating the respondent for the purpose of serving the respondent with a document under this Act; and

        (c)     must not be given by a police officer to—

              (i)     the protected person; or

              (ii)     any other organisation or person, other than another police officer or the court.

    (4)     In this section—

S. 181(4) def. of organisation amended by No. 60/2014 s. 140(Sch. 3 item 35).

organisation has the meaning given by the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 .

Pt 11A (Headings and ss 181A–181C) inserted by No. 11/2020 s. 41, amended by No. 27/2020 s. 39, repealed by No. 53/2010 s. 181C (as amended by No. 27/2020 s. 39).

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Part 12—Miscellaneous

S. 182 amended by No. 33/2018 s. 115 (ILA s. 39B(1)).