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Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990

Regulated products that must be notified

77: Establishment of database and confidentiality of certain information

You could also call this:

"The government keeps a secret list of information and protects private business details."

The Director-General has to set up and look after a database for this part of the law. You can think of a database like a big collection of information that is organised in a way that makes it easy to access and use. The Director-General gets to decide what form the database takes.

The Director-General must keep secret any information that is put on the database and any information that people might reasonably think is confidential or commercially sensitive. This means the Director-General has to protect information that is entered on the database and information that could be considered private or sensitive to businesses. The Director-General has to make sure this information is not shared with people who should not see it.

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Part 4Regulated products that must be notified

77Establishment of database and confidentiality of certain information

  1. The Director-General must establish and maintain a database for the purpose of this Part.

  2. The database may be in any form that the Director-General thinks fit.

  3. The Director-General must protect the confidentiality of any information that—

  4. is entered on the database; and
    1. may reasonably be regarded as confidential or commercially sensitive.

      Notes
      • Section 77: inserted, on , by section 27 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 62).
      • Section 77(3)(a): amended, on , by section 39 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 79).