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

PART 6 - PROVISIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION  

Division 2 - Confidentiality  

SECTION 167  

167   Protection of certain documents etc from production to court etc  


An officer must not, except for the purposes of the family assistance law or the Royal Commissions Act 1902 , be required:


(a) to produce any document in his or her possession; or


(b) to disclose any matter or thing of which he or she had notice;

because of the officer's powers, or the performance of the officer's duties or functions, under the family assistance law, to:


(c) a court; or


(d) a tribunal; or


(e) an authority; or


(f) a person;

having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.


 

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