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Human Rights Commission Act 2005
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99A Information sharing between commissioners
(1) A commissioner (an information giver) may give statutory
office-holder information to another commissioner (an information
recipient), and an information recipient may use the information, if
the information is necessary for the effective exercise of a function
under this Act.
(2) If an information recipient uses statutory office-holder information
given to them under subsection (1)—
(a) a secrecy requirement is taken to apply to the information
recipient in relation to the information; and
(b) the information recipient is taken to be a person engaged in the
administration of the law that contains the secrecy requirement.
secrecy requirement means a prohibition on the disclosure of
information that applies to an information giver in relation to
statutory office-holder information, whether the prohibition is
absolute or subject to stated exceptions or qualifications.
statutory office-holder information means information received by a
commissioner in their capacity as an individual statutory
office-holder under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth or
a State.