Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a person who--
(a) is, or has been--
(i) a person engaged by the service; or
(ii) a selection panel member; and
(b) in that capacity acquired relevant information about someone else.
(2) The person must not disclose the information to anyone else.
Maximum penalty--100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the disclosure of information about a person, if--
(a) the disclosure--
(i) is to a police officer, a public service employee in the service, or a selection panel member, for the purpose of assessing the person's suitability to be, or continue to be, engaged by the service; or
(ii) is with the person's consent; or
(iii) is of information that is relevant to an existing investigation of an offence; or
(iv) is for a proceeding started because of an investigation mentioned in subparagraph (iii); or
(v) is information the person may disclose to a person who is entitled to ask for it under another Act; or
Example for subparagraph (v)--
Family Services Act 1987, part 4
(b) the information discloses evidence of the commission or suspected commission of an offence and an investigation is started or facilitated because of the information.
(4) Also, a person involved in any way in anything done under this part can not be compelled to produce to a court any document kept, or to disclose to a court any information obtained, because of the doing of the thing.
(5) Other than to the extent the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, section 803 applies to the document or information, subsection (4) does not affect the operation of the Judicial Review Act 1991.
(6) In this section--
disclose, in relation to information about a person, includes give access to information about a person.
selection panel member means a member of a panel formed to make a recommendation to the commissioner about a person's engagement by the service.