Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The Minister may, at any time before or after making, amending or revoking water market rules, publish any information that is received by the Minister in a written submission about the proposed rules, unless:
(a) the person who gave the information, claims, when giving the information to the Minister, that it contains confidential information; and
(b) the Minister decides that the written submission contains confidential information.
(2) If:
(a) a written submission is given to the Minister under this Division; and
(b) the person who gave the written submission to the inister claimed that it contained confidential information; and
(c) the Minister decides that the written submission does contain confidential information as claimed;
then the Minister may publish the written submission if the confidential information is omitted.
(3) If, under subregulation (2), the Minister does omit information from a written submission, the Minister must, before publishing the written submission, cause a note to that effect to be included in the document at the place in the document from which the information is omitted.
(4) This regulation does not apply to the provision of written submissions:
(a) that are made in response to an invitation made by the Minister under regulation 4.16; and
(b) by:
(i) the Minister to the ACCC; or
(ii) the ACCC to the Minister under paragraph 4.15(f).
Note 1: Regulation 4.22 deals with confidential information in submissions that the Minister discloses to the ACCC.
Note 2: Regulation 4.25 deals with confidential information in submissions that the ACCC discloses to the inister.