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DEFENCE ACT 1903 - SECT 72Q Certain information may be collected and provided to law enforcement agencies etc.

DEFENCE ACT 1903 - SECT 72Q

Certain information may be collected and provided to law enforcement agencies etc.

  (1)   The Department, the Defence Force or a contracted security guard may, on defence premises, collect information, including personal information, by means of an optical surveillance device.

  (2)   The Department or the Defence Force may disclose information collected under subsection   ( 1) to one or more of the following persons or bodies, for the purposes of the performance of the functions of the person or body:

  (a)   an intelligence or security agency;

  (b)   the Australian Federal Police or the police force of a State or Territory;

  (c)   the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory.

  (3)   A disclosure of personal information under subsection   ( 2) is taken to be authorised by this Act for the purposes of Australian Privacy Principle   6 .

Note:   Australian Privacy Principle   6 applies to further disclosures of the personal information.

  (4)   This provision has effect despite any law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.