New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 26

26 Divulging of certain information prohibited

(1) A person engaged in the administration of this Act must not divulge any information or document (including an application for legal aid) obtained in connection with the administration of legal aid.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) This section does not prevent the divulging of information or a document if the information or document is divulged:

(a) in connection with the administration of legal aid, or

(b) as referred to in section 25 (4).

(3) This section does not limit the operation of section 25. Consequently, a member of the Board, a member of a committee established under this Act, the Chief Executive Officer or a member of staff of the Commission cannot be required to divulge any information or document merely because the divulging of the information or document is not prohibited by this section.

(4) For the purposes of this section, an application for legal aid includes a request for legal advice but no other form of legal aid.