New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 53

53 Exchange of information

(1) The regulator may enter into an arrangement (an "information sharing arrangement") with a relevant agency for the purposes of sharing or exchanging information held by the regulator and the agency.

(2) The information to which an information sharing arrangement may relate is limited to the following:

(a) information concerning possible breaches of this Act or the regulations,

(b) information concerning the safe provision of a public passenger service carried on by means of a bus or ferry or a rail passenger service,

(c) any other information that may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Under an information sharing arrangement, the regulator and the relevant agency are, despite any other Act or law of the State, authorised:

(a) to request and receive information held by the other party to the arrangement, and

(b) to disclose information to the other party,

but only to the extent that the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of functions of the regulator under this Act (or any other Act administered by the Minister for Transport, whether solely or jointly with another Minister) or the functions of the relevant agency concerned.

(4) This section does not limit the operation of any Act under which the regulator or a relevant agency is authorised or required to disclose information to another person or body.

(5) This section does not permit the disclosure of information in contravention of section 46E.

(6) In this section:
"relevant agency" means:

(a) the WorkCover Authority constituted by the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 , or

(b) the Chief Investigator, or

(c) any other person or body prescribed by the regulations.