Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who is or was employed for the purposes of this Act must not disclose confidential information that came to the person's knowledge because of the employment.
Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) applies to information that came to the person's knowledge directly or incidentally because of the employment or because of an opportunity given by the employment.
(3) However, subsection (1) does not apply to a disclosure by the person of information--
(a) under this or another Act; or
(b) under a requirement of a court or tribunal.
Example of a disclosure under this Act--
a witness' statement disclosed for the purposes of a trial
(4) The offence is committed even if--
(a) the person knew the information before it came to his or her knowledge because of employment for the purposes of this Act; or
(b) the information later stops being confidential.
(5) In this section--
confidential information, for a person to whom subsection (1) applies, includes information stated to be confidential information for the purposes of this section under a guideline given to the person under section 11(1)(c).
employed includes--
(a) appointed; and
(b) engaged; and
(c) requested to assist under section 13.