81Exchange of information

81 Exchange of information

81 Exchange of information

(1) The Monitor may enter into an arrangement (an information sharing arrangement) with a relevant agency for the purposes of sharing or exchanging information held by the Monitor or the relevant agency.

(2) The Monitor may also enter into an arrangement (also an information sharing arrangement) with a public sector agency for the purposes of acquiring information that, under the repealed Emergency Services Levy Insurance Monitor Act 2016, was in the possession, or under the control, of the Emergency Services Levy Insurance Monitor under that Act before the Act’s repeal.

(3) The information to which an information sharing arrangement may relate is limited to information that is reasonably necessary to—

(a) assist in the exercise of the functions of the Monitor, or

(b) assist in the exercise of the functions of the relevant agency in connection with the emergency services funding reform.

(4) Under an information sharing arrangement, the Monitor and the relevant agency are, despite another Act or law of the State, authorised—

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

(b) to disclose information to the other party.

(5) This section does not—

(a) limit the functions that may be exercised by the Monitor under section 7, or

(b) require the Monitor to give information to a relevant agency only in accordance with an information sharing arrangement if the information may otherwise be lawfully given, or

(c) limit the operation of another Act or law under which a relevant agency is authorised or required to disclose information to another person or body.

(6) In this section—

relevant agency means—

(a) the Chief Commissioner, or

(b) the Secretary of the Treasury or another Public Service employee employed in Treasury, or

(c) a person or an agency of the State, or of the Commonwealth or another State or Territory, that exercises functions under an Act in relation to fair trading, or