Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS ACT 2011 - SECT 24

Disclosure and use of information etc. within entity

  (1)   An officer of a designated Commonwealth entity may do any of the following for a purpose connected with the administration of a sanction law:

  (a)   copy, make a record of or use any information or document;

  (b)   disclose any information, or give any document, to another officer of that entity.

Disclosure outside of entity

  (2)   A CEO of a designated Commonwealth entity may disclose any information or give any document to any of the following for a purpose connected with the administration of a sanction law:

  (a)   a Minister of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

  (b)   the CEO of another Commonwealth entity;

  (c)   a State or Territory entity;

  (d)   a foreign government entity;

  (e)   a public international organisation;

  (f)   a person or entity specified in an instrument under subsection   (3).

  (3)   The Minister may by legislative instrument specify a person or entity for the purposes of paragraph   (2)(f).

  (4)   A CEO of a designated Commonwealth entity may disclose information under subsection   (2) only if the CEO is satisfied that the recipient of the disclosure will not disclose the information to anyone else without the CEO's consent.

  (5)   Subsection   (2) has effect subject to subsection   (4).

Relationship with other laws

  (6)   Subsections   (1) and (2) apply despite:

  (a)   a law of the Commonwealth other than this section; and

  (b)   a law of a State or a Territory.