29Ransomware payment reports may only be used or disclosed for permitted purposes

29  Ransomware payment reports may only be used or disclosed for permitted purposes

 (1) A designated Commonwealth body may make a record of, use or disclose information provided in a ransomware payment report by a reporting business entity, but only for the purposes of one or more of the following:

 (a) assisting the reporting business entity, and other entities acting on behalf of the reporting business entity, to respond to, mitigate or resolve the cyber security incident;

 (b) performing functions or exercising powers under this Part or Part 6 as it applies to this Part;

 (c) proceedings under, or arising out of, section 137.1 or 137.2 of the Criminal Code (false and misleading information and documents) that relate to this Act;

 (d) proceedings for an offence against section 149.1 of the Criminal Code (which deals with obstruction of Commonwealth public officials) that relates to this Act;

 (e) the performance of the functions of a Commonwealth body relating to responding to, mitigating or resolving a cyber security incident;

 (f) the performance of the functions of a State body relating to responding to, mitigating or resolving a cyber security incident;

 (g) the performance of the functions of the National Cyber Security Coordinator under Part 4 relating to a cyber security incident;

 (h) informing and advising the Minister, and other Ministers of the Commonwealth, about a cyber security incident;

 (i) the performance of the functions of an intelligence agency.

Note: Certain information must not be disclosed to a State body under Parts of this Act unless a Minister of the State or Territory has consented to those Parts applying to the State body: see section 11.

 (2) However, the designated Commonwealth body must not make a record of, use or disclose the information for the purposes of investigating or enforcing, or assisting in the investigation or enforcement of, any contravention by the reporting business entity of a Commonwealth, State or Territory law other than:

 (a) a contravention by the reporting business entity of this Part; or

 (b) a contravention by the reporting business entity of a law that imposes a penalty or sanction for a criminal offence.

Note: See also section 32 in relation to admissibility of the information in proceedings against the reporting business entity.

 (3) Subsection (1) does not authorise the designated Commonwealth body to record, use or disclose the information to the extent that it is prohibited or restricted by or under the Privacy Act 1988.

 (4) Subsection (1) does not prohibit the recording, use or disclosure of the following information: