AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (CONTROL OF USE) ACT 1992 - SECT 62B Secrecy

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (CONTROL OF USE) ACT 1992 - SECT 62B

    (1)     A person who has at any time—

        (a)     exercised a power or discharged a function under this Act or the Regulations; or

        (b)     been employed for the purposes of, or in connection with, the administration of this Act or the Regulations—

must not divulge or communicate to any person or publish any information referred to in section 62A unless the divulgence, communication or publication is made in accordance with that section.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (2)     A person or body to whom information is made available under section 62A and a person or employee under the control of that person or body, is subject, in respect of that information, to the same rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities under this section as if that person, body or employee were a person referred to in subsection (1).

S. 63 amended by Nos 73/1994 s. 54(1)–(4), 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1) (as amended by No. 12/1999 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 2)), 29/2010 s. 43(2), repealed by No. 22/2022 s. 29.

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Pt 8A (Heading) inserted by No. 22/2022 s. 21.

Part 8A—Reviews and appeals