Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may, if asked by a corresponding entity under an arrangement, give the entity information held by the chief executive that the chief executive is satisfied will help the entity in the exercise of the entity's functions under a corresponding law.
(2) A person who is, or has been, a corresponding official who, in the course of administering a corresponding law or because of an opportunity provided by involvement in administering a corresponding law, has acquired information about someone else, or gained access to a document about someone else, must not do either of the following—
(a) disclose to anyone else the acquired information or information from the accessed document;
(b) give access to the document to anyone else.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the disclosure of information, or the giving of access to a document, about a person—
(a) with the person's written consent; or
(b) for administering, or monitoring or enforcing compliance with, the corresponding law in relation to which the information was given under subsection (1); or
(c) for the administration or enforcement of another Act or law, if the disclosure or access is in the interests of public safety; or
(d) in a proceeding before a court, or before an entity carrying out functions under the corresponding law in relation to which the information was given under subsection (1), in which the information is relevant to the issue before the court or entity; or
(e) as required or authorised under an Act.
(4) Subsection (1) applies despite section 205A.
(5) In this section—
corresponding entity means a person who, in relation to the administration of a corresponding law, has functions similar to the chief executive in relation to the administration of this Act.
corresponding law means a law of the Commonwealth or another State about electrical safety.
corresponding official means—
(a) a corresponding entity or a delegate of a corresponding entity; or
(b) another person involved in the administration of a corresponding law.