Section 140ZI — Disclosure of personal information to Minister

140ZI Disclosure of personal information to Minister

(1) For the purposes of this Division, the Minister may request a person mentioned in column 2 of the following table in relation to an item to disclose to the Minister personal information of a prescribed kind about a person mentioned in column 3 of the table in relation to the item:

From whom the Minister may request disclosure of personal information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Item The Minister may to disclose personal information request ... of a prescribed kind to the Minister about ... 1 an approved sponsor or the visa holder former approved sponsor of a visa holder 2 an approved sponsor or the former visa holder former approved sponsor of a former visa holder

(2) For the purposes of:

(a) paragraph 6.2(b) of Australian Privacy Principle 6; and

(c) a provision of a law of a State or Territory that provides that information that is personal may be disclosed if the disclosure is authorised by law;

the disclosure of information by a person in response to a request under this section is taken to be a disclosure that is authorised by this Act.

(3) Nothing in this section has the effect of authorising a disclosure that, despite subsection (2), is prevented by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or Territory.