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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 70
Part VI--Offences by and against public officers 70
Disclosure of information by Commonwealth officers
- (1)
- A person who, being a Commonwealth officer, publishes or
communicates, except to some person to whom he is
authorized to publish or communicate it, any fact or
document which comes to his knowledge, or into his
possession, by virtue of being a Commonwealth officer, and
which it is his duty not to disclose, shall be guilty of
an offence.
- (2)
- A person who, having been a Commonwealth officer,
publishes or communicates, without lawful authority or
excuse (proof whereof shall lie upon him), any fact or
document which came to his knowledge, or into his
possession, by virtue of having been a Commonwealth
officer, and which, at the time when he ceased to be a
Commonwealth officer, it was his duty not to disclose,
shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
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