Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (QUEENSLAND) LAW - SECT 330

330 Confidentiality of information

(1) Information provided to the AEMC for the purposes of an MCE directed review or a review conducted by the AEMC under section 83 is confidential information for the purposes of that procedure if—

(a) the person who provides it claims, when providing it to the AEMC, that it is confidential information; and

(b) the AEMC decides that the information is confidential information.

(2) Nothing prevents the disclosure of confidential information by the AEMC in a report published under Division 4 or Division 5 of Chapter 2 Part 2 , but the AEMC must ensure that the information is identified as such in the report.

(3) If the AEMC decides that information provided to it for the purposes of an MCE directed review or a review conducted by the AEMC under section 83 is confidential information, the AEMC, the MCE or a Minister of a participating jurisdiction may only publish a version of the report from which the information has been omitted.

(4) If information is omitted from a published version of a report as being confidential information, a note to that effect must be included in the decision at the place in the decision from which the information is omitted.

Note—

See also section 71 of this Law and section 24 of the Australian Energy Market Commission Establishment Act 2004 of South Australia.