Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a person (an informed person) who has confidential information disclosed to the person, whether directly or indirectly, by a designated officer.
(2) The informed person must not, whether directly or indirectly, disclose the confidential information to anyone else.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the disclosure of confidential information—
(a) to the person to whom the confidential information relates; or
(b) for a lawful purpose for which the confidential information was originally disclosed to the informed person; or
(c) required or allowed under an agreement specified in section 50L; or
(d) authorised under an Act or another law.
(4) In this section—
confidential information means information an informed person has because of subsection (1) that identifies a person as a person who is receiving, or has received, an ambulance service.
designated officer means—
(a) the chief executive; or
(b) a service officer; or
(c) an honorary ambulance officer; or
(d) an agent of the service.