New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FOOD ACT 2003 - SECT 133H

133H Privacy and personal information

(1) The Food Authority may exercise its functions under this Part despite any prohibition in, or the need to comply with, the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .

(2) A public sector agency that holds personal information about a person may disclose the information, without the consent of the person, to the Food Authority, or to any person engaged in the administration of this Act, for the purpose of enabling the Food Authority to exercise its functions under this Part.

(3) In particular, the State Debt Recovery Office, and any person engaged in the administration of the Fines Act 1996 , is authorised to disclose personal information about a person obtained under that Act to the Food Authority, or to any person engaged in the administration of this Act, for the purpose of enabling the Food Authority to exercise its functions under this Part.

(4) In this section:
"personal information" has the same meaning as in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .
"public sector agency" has the same meaning as in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .