South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) An
authorised person who, by reason of the authority granted to him or her
pursuant to this Act, acquires information must not, except to the extent
necessary to perform his or her official duties or to perform a function or
exercise a power authorised by this Act, make a record of, or divulge or make
use of in any other way, the information acquired.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(2) Notwithstanding
subsection (1), a person is not guilty of an offence if he or she—
(a)
produces a document to a court in the course of criminal proceedings or
proceedings taken under this or any other Act; or
(b)
divulges to a court during the course of any proceedings referred to in
paragraph (a), any matter or thing coming under his or her notice in the
performance of his or her official duties or in the performance of a function
or exercise of a power referred to in subsection (1); or
(c)
produces a document or divulges information to a person to whom, in the
opinion of the Commission, it is in the public interest that the document be
produced or the information be divulged; or
(d)
produces a document or divulges information that is required or permitted by
any other Act to be produced or divulged, as the case may be.