New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 23

23 Information not to be disclosed

(1) A person must not, either directly or indirectly, make a record of, disclose, or communicate to another person any information relating to the making of an entry under this Act in a register of births, deaths or marriages, unless it is necessary to do so:

(a) for the purposes of this Act or a complementary witness protection law, or

(b) for the purposes of an investigation by the Ombudsman, or

(c) to comply with an order of the Supreme Court.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the Commissioner of Police may disclose the former identity of a participant or former participant for the purpose of obtaining documents relating to the new identity of the participant or former participant.