Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) An AFP appointee must not do either of the following except in the performance of the AFP appointee's duties:
(a) use or communicate to another person any information that comes to the AFP appointee's knowledge, or into the AFP appointee's possession, by reason of being an AFP appointee;
(b) obtain access to information by reason of being an AFP appointee.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), an AFP appointee is taken to have obtained access to information even if:
(a) the information is not in the possession, or under the control, of the AFP; or
(b) whether or not paragraph (a) applies--the information consists of a computer program or part of a computer program, or is otherwise stored in, or entered or copied into, a computer.