26B   Purpose of obtaining information about students

(1)  Information may be obtained under this Division solely for the purposes of assisting the Director-General or schools:

(a)  to assess whether the enrolment of a particular student at a school is likely to constitute a risk (because of the behaviour of the student) to the health or safety of any person (including the student), and

(b)  to develop and maintain strategies to eliminate or minimise any such risk.

(2)  Information about a student obtained under this Division is prohibited from being disclosed under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 except in response to an access application under that Act that is made by:

(a)  the student the subject of the information, or

(b)  a parent of the student, or

(c)  any person nominated in writing by the student or a parent of the student.

(3)  Nothing in this Division operates to prevent the provision or disclosure of information as required or permitted by or under any other Act or law (except as provided by subsection (2)).