Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered ActsInformation relating to registrants
(1) The Secretary must make available to the public, on a website, the following information in relation to each person registered in relation to a foreign principal:
(a) the name of the person and the foreign principal;
(b) a description of the kind of registrable activities the person undertakes on behalf of the foreign principal;
(c) any other information prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this paragraph.
(1A) If information that the Secretary is required to make available under subsection (1) is provided to the Secretary under section 36 (reporting on registration review when voting period begins) or 37 (reporting registrable activity during voting periods), the information must be made available within 48 hours of it being provided to the Secretary.
(1B) Other information that the Secretary is required to make available under subsection (1) must be made available within 4 weeks of it being provided to the Secretary.
(1C) However, the Secretary need not comply with subsection (1A) or (1B) if the Secretary is considering whether subsection (2) applies to the information.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the website must not include information that the Secretary is satisfied:
(a) is commercially sensitive; or
(b) affects national security; or
(c) is of a kind prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this subsection.
Note: A registrant who considers that information is commercially sensitive can specify this when giving the information.
Information relating to transparency notices
(2A) The Secretary must also make available to the public, on a website, the following:
(a) each provisional transparency notice issued under section 14B, along with:
(i) a written statement to the effect that a person whose interests are affected by the decision to issue the notice may, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 , apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the decision; and
(ii) if the notice becomes a final transparency notice under subsection 14C(4)--a written statement to that effect;
(b) any variation or revocation of a transparency notice under section 14E, along with a written statement to the effect that a person whose interests are affected by the decision to vary or revoke the notice may, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 , apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of the decision.
Note: See also section 14H (review of decisions relating to transparency notices).
Removal of information from website
(3) The rules may prescribe circumstances in which the Secretary is to remove publicly available information from the website.