A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

PART 6 - PROVISIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION  

Division 2 - Confidentiality  

SECTION 166   Offence: offering to supply protected information  

166(1)    
A person must not offer to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise) information about another person, knowing the information to be protected information.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

166(2)    
A person must not hold himself or herself out as being able to supply (whether to a particular person or otherwise) information about another person, knowing the information to be protected information.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

166(3)    

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Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) has the effect that an officer acting in the performance or exercise of his or her powers, duties or functions under the family assistance law commits an offence.

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S 166(3) substituted by No 4 of 2016, s 3 and Sch 4 item 332, effective 10 March 2016. S 166(3) formerly read:

166(3)
Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) makes an officer acting in the performance or exercise of his or her powers, duties or functions under the family assistance law guilty of an offence.

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