Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:2:p44
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 44/45)
Character Range: 762764–765582

the Agency;
 (g) an accountable authority, a member of an accountable authority or any other official (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013) of a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity (within the meaning of that Act) if the entity is prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, for the purposes of performing the functions, or exercising the powers, conferred on the entity by a law of the Commonwealth;
 (h) another person for the purposes of that other person performing functions, or exercising powers, under a prescribed Act;
 (i) the head (however described), or an officer or employee, of a prescribed Department of State of a State or Territory for the purposes of performing functions of the Department;
 (j) the head (however described), or an officer or employee, of a prescribed body established for a public purpose by or under a law of a State or Territory (including a local governing body) for the purposes of performing functions conferred on the body by a law of the State or Territory;
 (k) a prescribed professional disciplinary body for the purposes of performing one of its functions or exercising one of its powers;
 (l) a prescribed person or body for the prescribed purposes of the body or person.
 (5) The Registrar may impose conditions to be complied with in relation to protected information disclosed under subsection (4).
 (6) A person or body to whom protected information is disclosed under subsection (4) may use or disclose the information only:
 (a) for the purposes for which it was disclosed to the recipient; and
 (b) in accordance with any conditions imposed under subsection (5).
 (7) The disclosure of:
 (a) a summary of protected information; or
 (a) statistics derived from protected information;
is an authorised disclosure of the information but only if the protected information relating to any particular person cannot be found out from those summaries or statistics.
 (8) If the Registrar, or someone else, discloses protected information to a prescribed professional disciplinary body, in reliance on paragraph (4)(g), the body or member of the body:
 (a) must not disclose the information to any other person; and
 (b) must not use the information;
for any purpose other than for:
 (c) deciding whether or not to take disciplinary or other action; or
 (d) taking that action.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
 (9) Regulations made for the purposes of this section may specify uses of information and disclosures of protected information that are authorised uses and authorised disclosures for the purposes of this section.
 (10) The regulations cannot modify subsection (8).
 (11) Nothing in any of the above subsections limits:
 (a) anything else in any of those subsections; or
 (b) what may otherwise constitute, for