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CENSUS AND STATISTICS ACT 1905 - SECT 13 Release of information

CENSUS AND STATISTICS ACT 1905 - SECT 13

Release of information

  (1)   Notwithstanding anything in this Act (other than this section), the Minister may, by legislative instrument, make determinations providing for and in relation to the disclosure, with the approval in writing of the Statistician, of information included in a specified class of information furnished in pursuance of this Act.

  (2)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   ( 1), determinations may make provision:

  (a)   as to the persons to whom the information may be disclosed;

  (b)   as to the persons, being the persons from whom the information has been obtained, whose consent is required for the disclosure of the information; and

  (c)   specifying terms and conditions subject to which the information may be disclosed, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, terms and conditions as to the requiring of a person to whom the information is, or is to be, disclosed to give an undertaking, in writing with respect to the disclosure of the information by that person, including an undertaking not to disclose any of the information to any person.

  (3)   Information of a personal or domestic nature relating to a person shall not be disclosed in accordance with a determination in a manner that is likely to enable the identification of that person.