New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 97A

97A Confidentiality of financial statements

(1) A person cannot be required to produce any protected document or to divulge any protected information, except with the written consent of a relevant authority.

(2) Subsection (1) applies whether the requirement:

(a) relates to production or divulging to a court or relates to production or divulging to another body, party or person, and

(b) is imposed by a subpoena, direction or order or is imposed in some other manner.

(3) In this section:
"court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.
"produce" includes permit access to.
"protected document" means:

(a) a document or thing comprising a financial statement that has been furnished under section 97, or

(b) a document or thing comprising an explanation (furnished under section 97 (5)) of a matter arising out of a financial statement, or

(c) a document or thing requiring such an explanation to be furnished, or

(d) a document or thing comprising information that has otherwise come to attention under section 97 in relation to the financial affairs of a member of the NSW Police Force, or

(e) a copy of any such document or thing.

"protected information" means information or other matters contained in a protected document, or any other information that has come to attention under section 97 in relation to the financial affairs of a member of the NSW Police Force.
"relevant authority" means:

(a) the Minister or the PIC Commissioner, in relation to a financial statement furnished by the Commissioner of Police or to matters in or arising from such a statement, or

(b) the Commissioner of Police or the PIC Commissioner, in any other case.