102BAuthority to exchange certain information

102B Authority to exchange certain information

102B Authority to exchange certain information

(1) The Secretary may enter into an arrangement (an information sharing arrangement) with the head of a relevant agency for the purpose of sharing or exchanging information that is held by the Department or the relevant agency.

(2) Under an information sharing arrangement, each party to the arrangement is authorised—

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

(b) to disclose prescribed information that is held by the party to the other party to the arrangement.

(3) An information sharing arrangement extends to information obtained before the commencement of the regulation under which it is made unless the regulation otherwise provides.

(4) The authority to disclose, request or receive information under this section applies despite the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002.

(5) In this section—

law enforcement agency means any of the following—

(a) the NSW Police Force, or the police force of another State or a Territory,

(b) the New South Wales Crime Commission,

(c) the Australian Federal Police,

(d) the Australian Crime Commission,

(e) the Director of Public Prosecutions of New South Wales, of another State or a Territory or of the Commonwealth,

(f) the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission,

(g) the Independent Commission Against Corruption,

(h) a person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

prescribed information means information prescribed by the regulations.

relevant agency means—

(a) a law enforcement agency, or

(b) an intelligence agency of an Australian jurisdiction, or