Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6A · Electronic Transaction System and Data Framework
30A. Information from prescribed public agencies or prescribed entities
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A prescribed public agency or a prescribed entity may, at the request of the Registrar or the Authority, provide information, including personal data, to the Registrar or the Authority for the purposes of subsection (2) or (3) (as the case may be) unless the prescribed public agency or prescribed entity is prohibited by any written law from so providing the information.
prescribed public agency
“prescribed public agency” means any public agency prescribed under section 35 for the purposes of section 30A;
The Registrar or the Authority may use information obtained from any prescribed public agency for any purpose under this Act or any scheduled law, including to keep, maintain, rectify or update the information kept in the repository mentioned in section 6(1)(c) or any register kept under a scheduled Act.
Registrar
“Registrar” means —(a)the Registrar appointed under a scheduled Act; or(b)the person specified in the second column of the Fifth Schedule, in respect of a Fifth Schedule Act specified in the first column of that Schedule;
The Registrar or the Authority may use information obtained from any prescribed entity to verify the accuracy of any information or document kept, or to be kept, in the repository mentioned in section 6(1)(c).
If the Registrar or the Authority uses information mentioned in subsection (2) for any purpose permitted by that subsection, instead of obtaining the information from a person required under any other provision of this Act or any scheduled law to provide the same, that person —
is deemed to have complied with the requirement to provide the information for that purpose; and
is not liable for any error or inaccuracy in the information used under subsection (2), unless the Registrar or the Authority has —
requested that person to verify the information; and
given that person a reasonable opportunity to correct that information.
No prescribed public agency or prescribed entity, or a person acting on behalf of a prescribed public agency or prescribed entity, shall —
prescribed entity
“prescribed entity” means any entity prescribed under section 35 for the purposes of section 30A;
be guilty of an offence under any written law or of any breach of confidence;
incur any civil liability; or
be liable to any disciplinary action,only because the prescribed public agency, prescribed entity or person (as the case may be) provided or purportedly provided information to the Registrar or the Authority under subsection (1) in good faith and with reasonable care.