New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARINE PILOTAGE LICENSING ACT 1971 - SECT 50

50 Disclosure of confidential information

(1) No person shall give any confidential report or disclose any information contained therein to any person other than a prescribed person.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) In this section:
"confidential report" means any report made by a pilot to the Minister, the pilotage service provider or the Director-General relating to or in connection with the navigation, management or condition of a ship when he or she was pilot of that ship.
"prescribed person" means:

(a) a director, officer or employee of a pilotage service provider,

(a1) the Director-General or his or her other delegate,

(b) a chairperson or member of a Board of Review,

(c) a court,

(d) a person acting in a professional capacity or expert capacity before a Board of Review or a court, when the confidential report or any of the contents thereof are relevant to the proceedings before the Board of Review or court,

(e) the owner of the ship concerned or a person designated by the owner in writing, or

(f) any person designated by the Board or the Director-General in writing.