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Australian Federal Police Regulations 1979
13CInformation—unauthorised use or access
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#### 13C Information—unauthorised use or access
(1) An AFP appointee must not, except in the performance of his or her duties:
(a) use or communicate to another person any information that comes to the AFP appointee’s knowledge, or into his or her possession, by reason of being an AFP appointee; or
(b) obtain access to information by reason of being an AFP appointee.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (b), an AFP appointee is taken to have obtained access to information even if:
(a) the information is not in the possession, or under the control, of the Australian Federal Police; or
(b) whether or not paragraph (a) applies—the information consists of a computer program or part of a computer program, or is otherwise stored in, or entered or copied into, a computer.