Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner (Consequential Amendments) Act 2006 (86 of 2006)

Schedule 1   Consequential amendments

Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

38   After subsection 27(5)

Insert:

(5A) Subject to subsections (7), (9) and (10), if the Integrity Commissioner or a staff member of ACLEI obtains FTR information:

(a) the Integrity Commissioner may, in a manner that does not identify, and is not reasonably capable of being used to identify, a person to whom the information relates, communicate the information to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity under section 216 of the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006; and

(b) the Integrity Commissioner may communicate the information to a staff member of ACLEI who is conducting a hearing under Division 2 of Part 9 of that Act; and

(c) a staff member of ACLEI who is conducting a hearing under Division 2 of Part 9 of that Act may divulge the information in the course of the hearing; and

(d) a staff member of ACLEI may communicate the information to a law enforcement officer for the purposes of, or in connection with, the performance of the officer’s duties; and

(e) subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d), a staff member of ACLEI must not divulge or communicate the information; and

(f) a person (not being a law enforcement officer) to whom information has been communicated in accordance with paragraph (c) must not make a record of the information, or divulge or communicate the information, in any circumstances.