Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023A00055:section:53
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023A00055
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 53
Character Range: 60564–62249

53  Secrecy provisions
 (1) A person is not excused from giving information, producing a document or thing or answering a question under subsection 44(2) on the ground that doing so would breach a provision mentioned in subsection (2).
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), the provisions for the purposes of subsection (1) are:
 (a) a provision of a law of the Commonwealth that purports to prohibit; or
 (b) anything done, under a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, to prohibit;
any of the following:
 (c) the use of information, or a document or thing;
 (d) dealing with information, or a document or thing;
 (e) making a record of information, or a copy of a document or thing;
 (f) the disclosure or publication of information;
 (g) the production of, or the publication of the contents of, a document;
 (h) the production of a thing;
 (i) access to information, a document or a thing;
regardless of whether the provision of the law of the Commonwealth:
 (j) commenced before the commencement of this section; or
 (k) is expressed to apply despite any other law.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to any of the following:
 (a) a secrecy provision under the My Health Records Act 2012;
 (b) a secrecy provision that is a provision of a taxation law within the meaning of the Taxation Administration Act 1953;
 (c) a secrecy provision in the Ombudsman Act 1976;
 (d) a secrecy provision that is expressed by another law of the Commonwealth to have effect despite this Act;
 (e) anything done under a provision referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d).

Division 3—Protections relating to disclosing information

Subdivision A—Protecting identity of disclosers in certain circumstances