71Secrecy

71 Secrecy (1) Subject to this section, a person who is employed by the Territory shall not, either directly or indirectly, except for the purposes of this Act: (a) make a record of, or communicate to a person, information concerning the affairs of another person acquired by the person under this Act by reason of that employment; or (b) produce to a person or permit a person to have access to a document furnished to the person for the purposes of this Act. (2) Nothing in this section prevents a person to whom it applies from disclosing information obtained under this Act, where: (a) the person from whom it was obtained consents to the disclosure; or (b) the disclosure is to: (i) a member of the Police Force; (ii) a person who is employed by a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth to administer an Act in that State or Territory regulating the operations of casinos or gaming; (iia) a person who is employed to administer a law in force in another country that regulates the operations of casinos or gaming in that country; (iii) the Auditor-General for the purposes of performing functions or exercising powers imposed or conferred on the Auditor-General by or under the Audit Act 1995 or any other Act, or prevents the Auditor-General from disclosing that information or publishing that document if the disclosure or publication does not directly or indirectly divulge information identifying the affairs of a particular person; or Gaming Control Act 1993 55 (iv) the Commissioner, within the meaning of the Taxation Administration Act 2007, for the purposes of performing functions or exercising powers imposed or conferred on the Commissioner by or under the Taxation Administration Act 2007 or any other Act, or prevents the Commissioner from disclosing that information or publishing that document if the disclosure or publication does not directly or indirectly divulge information identifying the affairs of a particular person. (3) A person to whom this section applies shall not be required to produce in court any document connected with the administration or execution of this Act in the person's custody in the course of his or her employment or to divulge or communicate to a court any matter or thing coming under the person's notice in the course of employment, unless the production, divulgence, communication or publication is made: (a) with the consent of the person from whom the information or documentation was obtained; (b) in connection with the administration or execution of this Act; or (c) for the purposes of legal proceedings arising out of this Act or of a report of such proceedings.