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Electoral Act 2004
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19 Disclosure of roll information
(1) This section applies to a person who is or has been:
(a) the Commissioner; or
(b) an officer; or
(c) a member of the staff of the Commission.
(2) The person must not directly or indirectly do any of the following:
(a) make a record of, or communicate to another person,
information acquired by the person because of the person's
involvement in the administration of this Act;
(b) give another person, or permit another person to have access
to a copy of a roll, a roll extract, information contained on a roll
or another document given to the person for the administration
of this Act.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply:
(a) to the extent it is necessary for the person to do the thing:
(i) for this Act; or
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(ii) for the proper conduct of an election under the Local
Government Act 2019; or
(b) if the person is authorised or required by law to do the thing.