Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a participant who has been provided with a new identity under the NWPP would, apart from this section, be required by or under a law of the Commonwealth to disclose his or her former identity for a particular purpose; and
(b) the Commissioner has given the participant permission, in the prescribed form, not to disclose his or her former identity for that purpose;
the participant is not required to disclose his or her former identity to any person for that purpose.
(2) If a participant has been given permission under subsection (1) not to disclose his or her former identity for a particular purpose, it is lawful for the participant, in any proceedings, or for any purpose, under or in relation to the relevant law of the Commonwealth, to claim that his or her new identity is his or her only identity.
(3) It is the duty of each Commonwealth officer and former Commonwealth officer who has obtained access to information or a document relevant to the NWPP not to disclose that information or publish that document except as authorised by the Commissioner.
(4) If, under a complementary witness protection law of a State or Territory, it is lawful for a participant not to disclose his or her former identity for a purpose approved by the Commissioner, the participant is not required to disclose his or her former identity to a Commonwealth officer for that purpose.
(5) In addition to prescribing a form for the purposes of a permission under subsection (1), the regulations may prescribe a form for the purposes of a similar permission of the Commissioner under a complementary witness protection law of a State or Territory.
(6) In this section:
"participant" includes a person who:
(a) was provided with a new identity under the NWPP; and
(b) is no longer a participant but retains that identity.
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