Section 503DMigration Act 1958 (Cth)

Details of gazetted agency to be treated as protected information

(1) If section 503A or 503B applies to information communicated by a gazetted agency to an authorised migration officer so that the information cannot be divulged or communicated except as provided for in sections 503A, 503B and 503C, then sections 503A, 503B and 503C apply to similarly protect the agency’s details from being divulged or communicated as if the details were the information communicated by the agency.

(2) A reference in subsection (1) to agency’s details is a reference to any information in relation to the gazetted agency including the agency’s name and the conditions on which the communication of information by the agency occurred.

(3) In this section:

gazetted agency has the same meaning as in section 503A.

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