Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section applies to any person who is or has been—
(a) a member of the Tribunal;
(b) a registrar or other member of staff of the Tribunal;
(c) a person acting under the authority of the Tribunal.
(2) Except as permitted by this section, a person to whom this section applies must not directly or indirectly make a record of, or disclose to any person, any information about the affairs of a person acquired in the performance of functions under or in connection with this Act or an enabling enactment.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
(3) A person to whom this section applies may record or disclose information referred to in subsection (2)—
(a) with the written consent of the person to whom the information relates; or
(b) in connection with the performance of functions under this Act or an enabling enactment.
Note to s. 34(3)(b) inserted by No. 11/2023 s. 54(1).
Note
There are information sharing functions of the Tribunal under sections 38AA and 147A.
S. 34(4) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 177.2).
(4) A person to whom this section applies may disclose any information referred to in subsection (2) to a police officer for the purposes of reporting a suspected offence or assisting in the investigation of a suspected offence.
(5) A person to whom this section applies may disclose any information referred to in subsection (2) for statistical purposes to a person approved by the Minister provided that the information does not identify any person to whom it relates.
(6) Nothing in this section [1] applies to the recording or disclosure of—
S. 34(6)(a) amended by No. 58/2013 s. 58.
(a) anything said or done at a hearing of the Tribunal (other than at a hearing that the Tribunal has directed to be held in private or that is the subject of a closed court order under Part 5 of the Open Courts Act 2013 ); or
(b) any decision or order of the Tribunal or the reasons for any such decision or order.