Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Director of Meteorology may, in writing, require any person, or each person included in a class of persons, to give specified water markets information to the Bureau:
(a) within a specified period of time; and
(b) in a specified form or manner; and
(c) in accordance with any applicable Water Markets Data Standards.
(2) A person must not fail to comply with a requirement under this section.
Civil penalty: 100 penalty units.
(3) A person must not, in purported compliance with a requirement under this section, give to the Bureau information that is false or misleading.
Civil penalty: 120 penalty units.
(4) A person does not contravene a requirement of subsection (2) or (3) if, in purportedly complying with the requirement, the person:
(a) acted in good faith; and
(b) exercised a reasonable degree of care and diligence.
(5) A person is not excused from complying with a requirement under this section merely because the water markets information in question is:
(a) of a commercial nature; or
(b) subject to an obligation of confidentiality arising from a commercial relationship; or
(c) commercially sensitive.
(6) To avoid doubt, the information referred to in subsection (1) includes, but is not limited to, personal information within the meaning of the Privacy Act 1988 .