The Secretary may require an applicant for the BSWAT payment scheme, or any other person, to give information for the purposes of determining an application or for any other purposes in relation to this Act.

Information can be obtained, recorded, used and disclosed for the purposes of this Act and for certain other limited purposes. There are criminal offences for misuse of information obtained for the purposes of this Act.

In certain cases where an amount is wrongly paid to a person, the amount becomes a debt to the Commonwealth that can be recovered through the courts, or through a payment arrangement the Commonwealth might enter into with the person.