The Minister can choose to exempt some essential infrastructure providers from parts of this proposed law. You might be wondering how this works - the Minister can do this by putting a notice in the Gazette, which is like a special newspaper for official announcements. The Minister can set conditions for the exemption if they think it's necessary. The Minister can only do this if they think it's not fair to apply the law to that particular provider or group of providers. You need to know that the notice will say which parts of the law the provider is exempt from. This is an important detail to understand. If the exemption is for a whole group of providers, it's called a class exemption, and it's considered secondary legislation - you can learn more about what that means by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The Minister will decide what a class exemption means in this context, but basically, it's an exemption that applies to a whole group of entities. This is something the Minister will have to consider carefully.