Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsApplication of section
(1) This section applies to the use or disclosure of the information or document whether or not it is specially protected.
Disclosure in performance of duties
(2) The person may use or disclose the information or document in the performance of duties as an employee of Australia Post.
Disclosure under warrants
(3) The person may disclose the information or document as required by or under a warrant issued under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.
Disclosure as a witness
(4) The person may disclose the information or document as a witness summonsed to give evidence, or to produce documents, in a court of law.
Disclosure under a law of the Commonwealth
(5) The person may disclose the information or document as required by or under a law of the Commonwealth.
Disclosure under certain laws establishing Commissions
(6) The person may disclose the information or document as required by or under:
(a) the New South Wales Crime Commission Act 1985 of New South Wales; or
(b) the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 of New South Wales; or
(ba) the Independent Broad - based Anti - corruption Commission Act 2011 (Vic.); or
(c) the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 of Queensland; or
(ca) the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012 (SA); or
(d) any other prescribed law of a State or Territory that establishes a Commission or other body to conduct investigations or inquiries.
Disclosure under Australian Crime Commission legislation
(6A) The person may disclose the information or document as required by or under a law of a State if the Australian Crime Commission performs a duty or function, or exercises a power, under that law in accordance with section 55A of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 .
Disclosure to reduce threat to life or health
(7) The person may disclose the information or document to an officer or employee of a police force or service, fire service, ambulance service or other organisation providing emergency services if the person believes, on reasonable grounds, that the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the life or health of a person.
Disclosure of suspicions to authorised ASIO officers
(8) The person may disclose the information to an authorised ASIO officer if:
(a) the person is an authorised discloser; and
(b) the information is a reasonable suspicion that an article consists of or contains anything that is or may be relevant to security within the meaning of the ASIO Act.
Disclosure of suspicions where reasonably necessary for enforcement of criminal law
(9) The person may disclose the information if:
(a) the person is an authorised discloser; and
(b) the information is a reasonable suspicion that an article consists of or contains anything that is or may be evidence of an offence.
Disclosure of suspicions to consumer protection agencies
(10) The person may disclose the information to one or more consumer protection agencies if:
(a) the person is an authorised discloser; and
(b) the information is either:
(i) a reasonable suspicion that an article in the course of post consists of, or contains, scam mail; or
(ii) any information or document on the basis of which the person forms a reasonable suspicion that an article in the course of post consists of, or contains, scam mail.
Disclosure in circumstances permitted by UPU instrument
(11) The person may disclose the information if the disclosure is:
(a) to a postal administration of a foreign country; and
(b) in circumstances permitted under a UPU instrument and in accordance with that instrument.
Disclosure to Sport Integrity Australia
(12) The person may disclose the information to the Chief Executive Officer of Sport Integrity Australia for the purposes of the administration of the NAD scheme (within the meaning of the Sport Integrity Australia Act 2020 ).