Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

NORTHERN TERRITORY CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2014 - SECT 38

    (1)     The Minister may certify in writing that the disclosure of specified information or of a specified document would be contrary to the public interest.

    (2)     The Minister may do so only on one or more of the following grounds:

        (a)     the disclosure would reveal deliberations or decisions of:

            (i)     Cabinet; or

            (ii)     Executive Council;

        (b)     the disclosure would reveal something that parliamentary privilege protects from disclosure;

        (c)     the disclosure would endanger the national or international security of the Territory or Australia;

        (d)     the disclosure would damage inter-governmental relations;

        (e)     any other reason that could form the basis for a claim by the Territory or the Minister in a proceeding in the Supreme Court that the information or matter should not be disclosed.

    (3)     The certificate remains in force until revoked by the Minister or the Tribunal.

    (4)     If the Tribunal revokes a certificate, the Minister cannot issue another certificate for the same information or document.