Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00572:section:23
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00572
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23
Character Range: 139099–140124

23  Secrecy—audit information
 (1) A person mentioned in subsection (2) commits an offence if:
 (a) the person obtains audit information in his or her capacity as a person mentioned in subsection (2); and
 (b) the person discloses the information to another person otherwise than under, or for the purposes of:
 (i) this Act or the performance of duties in relation to this Act; or
 (ia) the safeguard rules or the performance of duties in relation to the safeguard rules; or
 (ii) another law of the Commonwealth or the performance of duties in relation to another law of the Commonwealth.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units, or both.
Note: The same conduct may be an offence against both this section and section 122.4 of the Criminal Code.
 (2) This section applies to a person who is or was:
 (d) an audit team leader; or
 (da) an audit team member.
Note: For the protection of other information, see Part 3 of the Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011 (secrecy obligations of officials of the Regulator).