Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, a staff member of the Reserve Bank Service, or an agent or other person carrying on any business of the Reserve Bank, must not:
(a) permit a person to have access to, or give to a person copies of or extracts from, a document belonging to, or in the possession of, the Reserve Bank; or
(b) give to a person information relating to the business of the Reserve Bank;
except by the direction or authority of the Reserve Bank or under compulsion or obligation of law.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.
(2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to the giving to a person of information with respect to matters of a customer of the Reserve Bank if the person is the customer or the information is given at the direction or request of the customer.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
(a) a document that is a protected document for the purposes of section 79A; or
(b) information that is protected information for the purposes of that section.