14Exchange of information with relevant agencies

14 Exchange of information with relevant agencies

14 Exchange of information with relevant agencies

(1) The Commissioner may provide relevant information to a relevant agency for the purposes of enabling or assisting the relevant agency—

(a) to provide a service to, or take other action in respect of, an adult with disability or older adult, or

(b) to make a decision or assessment in relation to the safety, welfare or well-being of an adult with disability or older adult, or

(c) to take action in respect of the safety, welfare or well-being of adults with disability or older adults generally.

(2) A relevant agency may provide relevant information to the Commissioner for the purposes of enabling or assisting the Commissioner’s exercise of its functions.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the Commissioner may enter into an arrangement (an information sharing arrangement) with a relevant agency (or in the case of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the President of the Tribunal) for the purposes of sharing or exchanging relevant information held by the Commissioner or the agency.

(4) The relevant information held by the Commissioner or a relevant agency that may be provided under this section, is limited to information concerning the following—

(a) a report under this Act,

(b) the safety, welfare or well-being of an adult with disability or older adult,

(c) the abuse, neglect or exploitation of an adult with disability or older adult,

(d) any other matter prescribed by the regulations.

(5) Under an information sharing arrangement, the Commissioner and the relevant agency are, despite any other Act or law, authorised—

(a) to request and receive information held by the other party to the arrangement, and

(b) to disclose information to the other party.

(6) Subsection (5) applies only to the extent that the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of functions of the Commissioner under this Act or the functions of the relevant agency.

(7) This section does not—