Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2025 (74 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to family assistance

Part 2   Protected information

Division 1   Amendments

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

15   Subsection 162B(2)

Repeal the subsection (including the heading), substitute:

(2) Without limiting subsection (1A) or (1), the Secretary may publish protected information in an aggregated form covered by subsection 162(2B).

(2A) The Secretary may authorise any of the following persons or bodies to electronically publish information covered by subsection (1A), (1) or (2):

(a) an agency or authority of the Commonwealth;

(b) a Department of State, or an agency or authority, of a State or Territory;

(c) a body established under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

(2B) To avoid doubt, the publishing of protected information under this section is for the purposes of the family assistance law.

Note: Section 162 authorises the use and disclosure of protected information for the purposes of the family assistance law. As well as having effect for the purposes of section 164 (which is about offences for unauthorised use of protected information), these authorisations have effect for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 and other laws.