Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00459:clause:1_59
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00459
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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 59
Character Range: 589394–590552

59  Disclosure of detainees' personal information

 (1) For the purposes described in subclause (2), an agency or organisation that is or has been responsible for the detention of an individual may disclose personal information about the individual to an agency, or organisation, that is or will be responsible for:
 (a) taking the individual into immigration detention; or
 (b) keeping the individual in immigration detention; or
 (c) causing the individual to be kept in immigration detention; or
 (d) the removal of the individual.

 (2) The purposes are:
 (a) the immigration detention of the individual; and
 (b) the removal of the individual; and
 (c) the welfare of the individual while in immigration detention or being removed.

 (3) In this clause:

agency has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988.

immigration detention has the same meaning as in the Migration Act 1958.

organisation has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988.

personal information has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988.

removal has the same meaning as in the Migration Act 1958.

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