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PUBLIC SECTOR ETHICS ACT 1994 - SECT 33

33 Secrecy

(1) A person must not record, use or disclose information about a relevant issue about another person that came to the person's knowledge because of the person's involvement in the administration of this part.

Maximum penalty--85 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person's recording, use or disclosure of information if the recording, use or disclosure is--

(a) in the performance of his or her functions under this part; or
(b) authorised under this or another Act.

(3) A person who is or has been involved in the administration of this part is not, in any proceeding, compellable to disclose information about a relevant issue about another person that came to the person's knowledge because of the person's involvement in the administration of this part.

(4) In this section--

relevant issue means--

(a) an ethics or integrity issue; or
(b) a conflict of interest issue.


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