Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Emergency Management Act 1986 - SECT 21G

Constraints on access to information not to apply

21G. Constraints on access to information not to apply



(1) No obligation to maintain secrecy or other restriction on the disclosure
of information obtained by or furnished to persons employed in the public
service or by an agency, where imposed by an enactment or rule of law, applies
to the disclosure of information required by the Commissioner under section
21F.

(2) The Commissioner or any other person must not divulge or communicate,
except in the course of duty to another person performing duties under this
Part, any information which has come to his or her knowledge by reason,
directly or indirectly of subsection (1), if the person from whom that
information was obtained could not, but for that section, lawfully have
divulged that information to the Commissioner or other person.