Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the chief executive, an authorised officer, another prescribed entity, a police officer or anyone else in the course of performing functions under or in relation to the administration of this Act, gives a person (the receiver) information or a document about another person's affairs.
(2) The receiver must not use or disclose the information, or give access to the document, to anyone else.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(3) However, the receiver may, subject to section 186, use or disclose the information or give access to the document to someone else—
(a) if the use, disclosure or giving of access is authorised by the chief executive under section 189B; or
(b) if the use, disclosure or giving of access is for purposes directly related to a child's protection or wellbeing; or
(c) if the use, disclosure or giving of access is for purposes directly related to obtaining information requested by the chief executive under section 246C; or
(d) if the use, disclosure or giving of access is otherwise required or permitted by law.