A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
PART 6
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PROVISIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION
Division 2
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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.
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.
166(3)
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.
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)
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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