Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:9_110zhn:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 9 cl 110ZHN (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 527715–530657

110ZHN  Authorisation to disclose information (other than intelligence information)

Authorisation to disclose
 (1) The Defence and Veterans' Services Commissioner may disclose information (including personal information) to an entity specified in subsection (2) if:
 (a) the information was given to the Commissioner in accordance with a notice under section 110ZGC or 110ZGE, or in accordance with section 110ZGN or 110ZGP; and
 (b) the Commissioner is satisfied that the information will assist the entity to perform any of its functions or exercise any of its powers; and
 (c) in the case of an entity specified in any of paragraphs (2)(k) to (m) of this subsection—the Commissioner is satisfied that the function or power mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection is connected with defence member or veteran deaths by suicide; and
 (d) in any case—the information is not intelligence information.
 (2) The entities are the following:
 (a) the Attorney‑General of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
 (b) the Australian Federal Police;
 (c) the police force of a State or Territory;
 (d) the Director of Public Prosecutions;
 (e) a Special Prosecutor appointed under the Special Prosecutors Act 1982;
 (f) a Royal Commission or a body with functions equivalent to a Royal Commission;
 (g) if the information relates, or may relate, to the contravention, or evidence of a contravention, of a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory—an entity responsible for the administration or enforcement of the law;
 (h) the Australian Crime Commission;
 (i) the National Anti‑Corruption Commissioner (within the meaning of the National Anti‑Corruption Commission Act 2022);
 (j) a coroner or a coroners' court;
 (k) any other Commonwealth body;
 (l) any other State body or Territory body;
 (m) any other individual who holds any office or appointment under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

Coronial inquiries
 (3) If the Commissioner believes that the disclosure of information under subsection (1) to an entity specified in any of paragraphs (2)(k) to (m) may prejudice a current or future coronial inquiry, the Commissioner must consider consulting:
 (a) for a current coronial inquiry—the coroner conducting the inquiry; or
 (b) for a future coronial inquiry—the head of the relevant coronial jurisdiction before disclosing the information.

State or Territory police investigations
 (4) If the Commissioner believes that the disclosure of information under subsection (1) to an entity specified in any of paragraphs (2)(k) to (m) may prejudice current or future investigations by a police force of a State or Territory, the Commissioner must consider consulting the head (however described) of the police force of the State or Territory before disclosing the information.

Authorisation for agencies and bodies to use and disclose information
 (5) An entity to which information is disclosed under subsection