53Secrecy provisions

53 Secrecy provisions

(1) A person is not excused from giving information, producing a document or thing or answering a question under subsection 44(2) on the ground that doing so would breach a provision mentioned in subsection (2). (2) Subject to subsection (3), the provisions for the purposes of subsection (1) are: (a) a provision of a law of the Commonwealth that purports to prohibit; or (b) anything done, under a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, to prohibit; any of the following: (c) the use of information, or a document or thing; (d) dealing with information, or a document or thing; (e) making a record of information, or a copy of a document or thing; (f) the disclosure or publication of information; (g) the production of, or the publication of the contents of, a document; (h) the production of a thing; (i) access to information, a document or a thing; regardless of whether the provision of the law of the Commonwealth: (j) commenced before the commencement of this section; or (k) is expressed to apply despite any other law. (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to any of the following: (a) a secrecy provision under the My Health Records Act 2012; (b) a secrecy provision that is a provision of a taxation law within the meaning of the Taxation Administration Act 1953; (c) a secrecy provision in the Ombudsman Act 1976; (d) a secrecy provision that is expressed by another law of the Commonwealth to have effect despite this Act; (e) anything done under a provision referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d).