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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 715

Protection of confidentiality of information obtained by a recipient Minister

  (1)   This section restricts what a recipient Minister may do with documentary information made available to the recipient Minister under section   714.

  (2)   The recipient Minister must not:

  (a)   make the information publicly known; or

  (b)   make the information available to a person (other than a Minister, a Minister of a State or a Minister of the Northern Territory);

unless the recipient Minister does so:

  (c)   in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   for the purposes of the administration of this Act or the regulations.

  (3)   If the recipient Minister makes the information available to a person (the second recipient Minister ) who is a Minister, a Minister of a State or a Minister of the Northern Territory, the second recipient Minister must not:

  (a)   make the information publicly known; or

  (b)   make the information available to a person;

unless the second recipient Minister does so:

  (c)   in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   for the purposes of the administration of this Act or the regulations.


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