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Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) - Section 70
Disclosure of information by Commonwealth officers.
             PART  VI-OFFENCES  BY  AND  AGAINST  PUBLIC  OFFICERS
  70. (1) A person who, being a Commonwealth officer, publishes or
communicates, except to some person to whom he is authorized to publish or
communicate it, any fact or document which comes to his knowledge, or into his
possession, by virtue of his office, and which it is his duty not to disclose,
shall be guilty of an offence.
  (2) A person who, having been a Commonwealth officer, publishes or
communicates, without lawful authority or excuse (proof whereof shall lie upon
him), any fact or document which came to his knowledge, or into his
possession, by virtue of his office, and which, at the time when he ceased to
be a Commonwealth officer, it was his duty not to disclose, shall be guilty of
an offence.

  Penalty: Imprisonment for two years.

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