Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person who, being an officer of the Territory, publishes or communicates, except to some person to whom he or she is authorised to publish or communicate it, any fact or document which comes to his or her knowledge, or into his or her possession, by virtue of him or her being an officer of the Territory and which it is his or her duty not to disclose, commits an offence.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.
(2) A person who, having been an officer of the Territory, publishes or communicates, without lawful authority, any fact or document which came to his or her knowledge, or into his or her possession, by virtue of the person having been an officer of the Territory and which, at the time when he or she ceased to be an officer of the Territory, it was his or her duty not to disclose, commits an offence.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.
(3) In this section:
"officer of the Territory" means—
(a) a public employee; or
(b) a person who performs services for the Territory or a territory authority.