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Higher Education Support Act 2003
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76 Commissioner may disclose information
(1) Despite anything in an Act of which the *Commissioner has the general administration, the Commissioner, or a person authorised by the Commissioner, may communicate *VET personal information to a *VET officer for use by that officer:
(a) in the case of a *Commonwealth officer—in the course of the officer’s *official employment; or
(aa) in the case of an *officer of a Tertiary Admission Centre—to assist the officer in performing duties or functions, or in exercising powers, under, or for the purposes of, this Schedule; or
(b) in the case of an *officer of a *VET provider—to assist the officer in performing duties or functions, or in exercising powers, under, or for the purposes of, this Schedule.
(2) Despite subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code, in a prosecution for an offence against an Act of which the *Commissioner has the general administration, the defendant does not bear an evidential burden in relation to whether this clause applies to a communication of *VET personal information.