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INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2009 - SECT 7 Relationship with other Acts prohibiting disclosure of information

INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2009 - SECT 7

Relationship with other Acts prohibiting disclosure of information

7 Relationship with other Acts prohibiting disclosure of information

(1) Chapter 3 overrides the provisions of other Acts prohibiting the disclosure of personal information (however described).
Notes—
1 The Parliament considers that personal information the disclosure of which is prohibited under a provision of an Act mentioned in the Right to Information Act , schedule 3 , section 12 is information the disclosure of which would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest—see the Right to Information Act , section 44 (2) (a) , as applied under this Act, and schedule 3 , section 12 of that Act.
2 This information is called exempt information and, under the Right to Information Act , section 47 (3) (a) , as applied under this Act, an agency or Minister may refuse access to a document to the extent the document comprises exempt information.
3 However, an agency or Minister may give access to a document even if this Act provides that access to the document may be refused—see section 64 (4) .
(2) Other than as provided for in subsection (1) , this Act is intended to operate subject to the provisions of other Acts relating to—
(a) the collection, storage, handling, accessing, amendment, management, transfer, and use of personal information; and
(b) the disclosure, within the meaning of section 23 , of personal information.