Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GREENHOUSE AND ENERGY REPORTING ACT 2007 - SECT 25

  (1)   A registered corporation, a person required to provide a report under section   22G, 22X or 22XB, or a person required to provide information under section   20, may apply to the Regulator requesting information not be published if the information reveals, or could be capable of revealing:

  (a)   trade secrets; or

  (b)   any other matter having a commercial value that would be, or could reasonably be expected to be, destroyed or diminished if the information were disclosed;

about a specific facility, technology or corporate initiative relating to the corporation or the person.

  (2)   The application must:

  (a)   identify the corporation or the person; and

  (b)   identify the information that is requested not to be published; and

  (c)   be given in the manner and form approved by the Regulator.

  (3)   The Regulator may accept the application and not publish the information if he or she is satisfied that the information would reveal, or would be capable of revealing, information of a kind specified in subsection   (1).

  (4)   The Regulator must notify an applicant, in writing, of a decision to accept or refuse an application under this section.

  (5)   This section does not apply to information required to be published under subsection   24(1AF), (3A) or (3B).