Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644:clause:2_54
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 54
Character Range: 369153–370511

54  Authorising disclosure of identifying information to foreign countries etc.
 (1) AFMA may, in writing, authorise a specified officer or detention officer, any officer or detention officer included in a specified class of officers or detention officers, or an Agency (as defined in the Public Service Act 1999) prescribed by the regulations, to disclose identifying information of the kind specified in the authorisation to one or more of the following:
 (a) one or more specified foreign countries;
 (b) one or more specified bodies each of which is:
 (i) a police force or police service of a foreign country; or
 (ii) a law enforcement body of a foreign country; or
 (iii) a border control body of a foreign country;
 (c) one or more specified international organisations, or specified organisations of foreign countries, that are responsible for fisheries matters;
 (d) one or more prescribed bodies of a foreign country, of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory;
 (e) one or more prescribed international organisations.
 (2) AFMA must specify in the authorisation, as the purpose or purposes for which disclosure is authorised, one or more of the purposes set out in subclause 26(3).
Note: This clause corresponds closely to subsections 336F(1) and (2) of the Migration Act 1958.

Subdivision D—Modifying and impairing identifying information