AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 90G Application of Subdivision

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 90G

  (1)   This Subdivision applies to a person who is an employee of Australia Post and to information or a document acquired or received by the person if:

  (a)   the person acquired or received the information or document in the course of his or her employment as an employee of Australia Post; and

  (b)   the information or document:

  (i)   is, or relates to, an article, or some or all of the contents or substance of an article, that has been carried by post or is in the course of post; or

  (ii)   relates to services supplied, or intended to be supplied, to another person by Australia Post; or

  (iii)   relates to the affairs or personal particulars (including name or address) of another person.

  (2)   Subject to subsection   (3), the information or document is specially protected if subparagraph   (1)(b)(i) is satisfied in relation to the information or document, whether or not subparagraph   (1)(b)(ii) or (iii) is also satisfied in relation to it.

  (3)   The information or document is not specially protected if:

  (a)   in the case of information--the information is clearly visible on, or through, the outside of the cover of the article; or

  (b)   in the case of a document--the document consists of the outside of the cover of the article.