South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (NATIONAL ELECTRICITY AND GAS LAWS--INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION) ACT 2016 (NO 55 OF 2016) - SECT 16

16—Amendment of section 91GH—Disclosure of protected information authorised if detriment does not outweigh public benefit

Section 91GH—after subsection (7) insert:

        (7a)         Despite anything to the contrary in this Law, this section is taken to be an exhaustive statement of the requirements of the natural justice hearing rule in relation to—

            (a)         AEMO's decision under subsection (1) to disclose information given in confidence to AEMO; and

            (b)         without limiting paragraph (a)

, if AEMO's decision under subsection (1) is to disclose the confidential information, AEMO's opinion—

                  (i)         that the disclosure of the information would not cause detriment to the person who gave the information or, if the person who gave the information in turn received the information from another person, that other person (as the case may be); or

                  (ii)         that, although the disclosure of the information would cause detriment to such a person, the public benefit in disclosing it outweighs that detriment.