Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BANKING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 193 of 1992 - SECT 13

13. After section 69C of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Disclosure of information

"69D.(1) This section applies to any fact or document that relates to:

   (a)  a bank; or

   (b)  a body corporate applying for an authority to carry on banking
        business.

"(2) It is the duty of an officer not to disclose any fact or document to
which this section applies and that has come to his or her knowledge, or into
his or her possession, because he or she is an officer unless it is necessary
for the officer to publish or communicate that fact or document in performing
a function or duty, or exercising a power, under this Act.

"(3) An officer is not required:

   (a)  to produce in a court a document to which this section applies; or

   (b)  to communicate to a court any fact to which this section applies;
        unless the court decides that it is necessary to do so for the
        purposes of this Act or the regulations.

"(4) In this section:
'court' includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the
production of documents or the answering of questions;
'officer' means:

   (a)  the Governor or a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, the Secretary
        to the Department of the Treasury or any other member of the Reserve
        Bank Board; or

   (b)  an officer, or a temporary or casual employee, of the Reserve Bank; or

   (c)  an officer or employee within the meaning of the Public Service Act
        1922;
'produce' includes permit access to.".