Rates Rebate Act 1973

12: Secrecy

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"Keeping rebate application information secret"

If you work for a territorial authority, you must keep secret the information people give when they apply for a rebate under the Rates Rebate Act. You can only share this information for purposes related to the Act, or to check if the information in the application is correct, or as required by the Public Finance Act 1989. You also can't disclose information you got from someone who applied for a rebate, or information you found out because of section 11.

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11A: Advice of Secretary for Local Government as to applications for rebates or refunds, or

"The Secretary for Local Government helps councils with rate rebate applications"

13: Form of verification, or

"How to prove your rates rebate application is true"

12Secrecy

Except for the purposes of this Act or the Public Finance Act 1989, or of investigating the correctness of any information contained in any application for a rebate under this Act, no officer of a territorial authority shall disclose to any person any information contained in any application for a rebate made under this Act or disclosed or obtained pursuant to section 11.

Notes

Section 12: replaced, on 1 April 1987, by section 25(1) of the Official Information Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 8).
Section 12: amended, on 1 July 1989, pursuant to section 87 of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).