Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsCurrent emergency call persons
(1) An emergency call person must not disclose or use any information or document that:
(a) relates to:
(i) the contents or substance of a communication that has been carried by a carrier or carriage service provider; or
(ii) the contents or substance of a communication that is being carried by a carrier or carriage service provider; or
(iii) the affairs or personal particulars (including any unlisted telephone number or any address) of another person; and
(b) comes to the person's knowledge, or into the person's possession, in connection with the operation of an emergency call service.
Former emergency call persons
(2) A person who has been an emergency call person must not disclose or use any information or document that:
(a) relates to a matter mentioned in paragraph (1)(a); and
(b) came to the person's knowledge, or into the person's possession, in connection with the operation of an emergency call service.
Offence
(3) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
Note 1: This section is subject to the exceptions in Division 3 of this Part and in Chapter 4 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 .
Note 2: See also sections 4AA and 4B of the Crimes Act 1914 .
Scope of subsection (1)--carriage by means of electromagnetic energy
(4) Subparagraphs (1)(a)(i) and (ii) do not apply to a communication that is or has been carried by a carrier or carriage service provider unless the carriage was by means of, is by means of, or is proposed to be delivered by means of, guided and/or unguided electromagnetic energy.