Family Violence Protection Act 2008
210AInformation sharing regulation making power
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210A Information sharing regulation making power
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to Part 5A.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) prescribing a person to be an information sharing entity; and
(b) prescribing a body to be an information sharing entity; and
(c) prescribing an information sharing entity as belonging to any of the following categories—
(i) a risk assessment entity;
(ii) a protection entity; and
(d) prescribing an information sharing entity as belonging to any category specified in the Regulations; and
S. 210A(2)(e) substituted by No. 11/2018 s. 47(1).
(e) prohibiting or regulating the type of information that may be used, disclosed or handled by an information sharing entity or a specified category of information sharing entity; and
S. 210A(2)(f) substituted by No. 11/2018 s. 47(1).
(f) prohibiting or regulating the type of information that may be requested or collected by an information sharing entity or a specified category of information sharing entity; and
S. 210A(2)(fa) inserted by No. 11/2018 s. 47(1).
(fa) prescribing the purposes for which an information sharing entity or a specified category of information sharing entity may use or disclose confidential information; and
S. 210A(2)(fb) inserted by No. 11/2018 s. 47(1).
(fb) enabling an information sharing entity that is a public sector body Head within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004—
(i) to delegate its powers, duties and functions under Part 5A or the regulations; and
(ii) to sub-delegate any powers, duties and functions under Part 5A or the regulations that have been delegated to the information sharing entity; and
S. 210A(2)(fc) inserted by No. 11/2018 s. 47(1).
(fc) prescribing the persons and bodies to which powers, duties and functions may be delegated or sub-delegated by an information sharing entity that is a public sector body Head within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004; and
S. 210A(2)(g) amended by No. 11/2018 s. 47(2)(3).
(g) subject to subsection (5), prescribing specified persons employed or engaged by, or parts of, an information sharing entity or specified category of information sharing entity to perform specified functions or exercise specified powers on behalf of an information sharing entity including by specifying any of the following to perform specified functions under Part 5A—