Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 No. 3 of 1982 - SECT 47

47. (1) A document is an exempt document if it is, or is a copy of or of a
part of, or contains an extract from -

   (a)  a document for the purposes of the Ministerial Council for Companies
and Securities prepared by, or received by an agency or Minister from,
a State or an authority of a State;

   (b)  a document the disclosure of which would disclose the deliberations or
decisions of the Ministerial Council for Companies and Securities,
other than a document by which a decision of that Council was officially
published;

   (c)  a document furnished to the National Companies and Securities
Commission by a State or an authority of a State and relating solely
to the functions of the Commission in relation to the law of a State or
the laws of 2 or more States; or

   (d)  a document, other than a document referred to in paragraph (c), that
is in the possession of the National Companies and Securities
Commission
and relates solely to the exercise of the functions of that
Commission under a law of a State or the laws of 2 or more States.

(2) This section has effect as if the Northern Territory were a State.